Regular frames and particle's rotation near a black hole

Abstract

We consider a particle moving towards a rotating black hole. We are interested in the number of its revolution $n$ around a black hole. In our previous work (Pavlov and Zaslavskii in Gen Relativ Gravit 50: 14, 2018. arXiv:1707.02860) we considered this issue in the Boyer-Lindquist type of coordinates with a subsequent procedure of subtraction. Now, we reconsider this issue using from the very beginning the frames regular on the horizon. For a nonextremal black hole, regularity of a coordinate frame leads to the finiteness of a number of revolutions around a black hole without a subtraction procedure. Meanwhile, for extremal black holes comparison of $n$ calculated in the regular frame with some subtraction procedures used by us earlier shows that the results can be different.

11 pages, 1 figure. Misprints in eq. (27) corrected. Matches published version