Charged-particle turning-point exclusion in Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime
ID: charged-particle-turning-point-exclusion-in-reissner-nordstrom-spacetime
For , the charged-particle radial equation in Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime implies that any radial turning point obeysSince , it follows that . Thus no massive test particle, regardless of its electric charge, can have a radial turning point in , where . At a regular horizon crossing, a timelike vector cannot lie in the tangent space of a null hypersurface, so a massive particle has there as well. The algebraic inequalities or are necessary conditions, not an existence theorem for radial turning points.
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