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Compact calculation of the perihelion precession of Mercury in general relativity, the cosmological constant and Jacobi's inversion problem

G V Kraniotis1 and S B Whitehouse2

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The geodesic equations resulting from the Schwarzschild gravitational metric element are solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. The exact solution is given by genus-2 Siegelsche modular forms. For zero cosmological constant the hyperelliptic curve degenerates into an elliptic curve and the resulting geodesic is solved by the Weierstraß Jacobi modular form. The solution is applied to the precise calculation of the perihelion precession of the orbit of the planet Mercury around the Sun.


Footnote
*  HU-EP-03/20, May 2003.
PACS

04.20.Jb Exact solutions

96.30.Dz Mercury

95.10.Eg Orbit determination and improvement

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

MSC

85A40 Cosmology (For relativistic cosmology, see 83F05)

85A20 Planetary atmospheres

83C15 Exact solutions

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 22 (21 November 2003)

Received 28 May 2003

Published 6 October 2003



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