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Schwarzschild light deflection

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A null Schwarzschild geodesic with b≫rs​ is deflected through 2rs​/b=4GM/(bc2) to first order.
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Perturbative derivation of Schwarzschild light deflection

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Schwarzschild light deflection
Writing y=b−1sinϕ+Δy in y′′+y=3My2 and retaining first order in M gives
Δy′′+Δy=2b23M​(1−cos2ϕ).
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The displacement of the outgoing zero is 4M/b.

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