Light-ring pairs from $A$-discriminantal varieties

Abstract

When geodesic equations are formulated in terms of an effective potential $U$, circular orbits are characterised by $U={\partial }_{a}U=0$. In this paper we consider the case where $U$ is an algebraic function. Then the condition for circular orbits defines an $A$-discriminantal variety. A theorem by Rojas and Rusek, suitably interpreted in the context of effective potentials, gives a precise criteria for certain types of spacetimes to contain at most two branches of light rings (null circular orbits), where one is stable and the other one unstable. We identify a few classes of static, spherically-symmetric spacetimes for which these two branches occur and show that the spacetimes with non-degenerate horizons do not have stable light rings.

arXiv comment46 pages, 8 figures. Typos corrected and a new section added

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