Charged particles moving around a spherically symmetric dilatonic black hole

Abstract

For the static spherically symmetric dilatonic black hole described by the Gibbons-Maeda-Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger geometry, we analyze the timelike trajectories for electrically charged test particles. Both cases of an electric black hole and a magnetic one are considered. Finally, we are obtaining the solution to the Klein--Gordon equation in terms of Heun confluent functions and the corresponding energy spectrum. A special attention is given to the role of the dilaton parameter.

27 pages, 9 figures, v3. major revision, added references. Matches the published version