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Charged Particles in Spacetimes with an Electromagnetic Field

  • Introduction
    • The space-time
      • Verification of the Einstein–Maxwell equations
      • Extremal horizons
        • The inadmissible scenarios: horizons 4 & 2+2
        • Horizons 1+3**
        • Horizons 1+1+2
        • Extremal black holes with disappearing horizons
        • Extremal naked singularities
        • Extremal black holes: summary
        • Perturbing the parameters
        • On conformal diagrams
        • Comparison with extremal Kerr–Newman scenarios
      • Frame-dragging***
    • Electrogeodesics
      • Integrals of motion
      • On the normalisation equation
      • The static case
        • The axis
        • The equatorial plane
      • Motion in the equatorial plane
        • Stationary circular orbits**
        • Photon orbits
        • Effective potential
      • Radial motion along the axis of rotation
        • Null geodesics & near-horizon approximation
        • Effective potential & static particles revisited
    • Quantum tunnelling & horizon temperature
      • The null geodesic method fundamentals
      • Horizon temperatures
        • Horizons of multiplicity one**
        • Extremal horizons
  • Appendices
    • A. A tale of two Lagrangians
    • B. The road not taken
    • C. Positive roots of polynomials