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I tried to solve an exercise related to Schwarzschild metric, and at some point found next question Question

I can't figure out how the first line turns out.

With studying Schwarzschild metric geodesics one can easily come up with the following differential equation \begin{equation} \dfrac{dr}{d\tau} = - \sqrt{C^2-\left( 1-\dfrac{2GM}{r}\right)} \end{equation} which relates the radial coordinate and the proper time outside the event horizon $r_H=2GM$ (I'm using, of course, $c=1$).

Can anyone explain how we get this?

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It looks like i found an answer in book

Chandrasekhar S. The Mathematical Theory of Black. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983. 107 p.

, but i still appreciate any help for answering some questions (that are well known for physicist) across the proof.

Let us have Schwarzschild metric $$\mathrm{d} s^2=(1-2 M / r)(\mathrm{d} t)^2-\frac{(\mathrm{d} r)^2}{1-2 M / r}-r^2\left[(\mathrm{~d} \theta)^2+(\mathrm{d} \varphi)^2 \sin ^2 \theta\right]$$

Lagrangian in our case looks like this $$\mathscr{L}=1 / 2\left[(1-2 M / r) \dot{t}^2-\dot{r}^2 /(1-2 M / r)-r^2 \dot{\theta}^2-\left(r^2 \sin ^2 \theta\right) \dot{\varphi}^2\right],$$ where the dot means differentiation by $\tau$.

We are interested in canonical impulse $p_t$: $$ p_t=\frac{\partial \mathscr{L}}{\partial t}=\left(1-\frac{2 M}{r}\right)\dot{t} , $$

$$ \frac{\mathrm{d} p_t}{\mathrm{~d} \tau}=\frac{\partial \mathscr{L}}{\partial t}=0 \text{ (by definition?)}, $$

$$ p_t=\left(1-\frac{2 M}{r}\right) \frac{\mathrm{d} t}{\mathrm{~d} \tau}=\mathrm{const}=E, $$

At this point everything became clear. In the problem there is no spherical movement, so Schwarzschild metric reduces to $$\mathrm{d} s^2=(1-2 M / r)(\mathrm{d} t)^2-\frac{(\mathrm{d} r)^2}{1-2 M / r}$$

Since $ds^2 \text{(why?)}=c^2d\tau^2=\tau^2$ , so we have:

$$\mathrm{d} \tau^2=(1-2 M / r)(\mathrm{d} t)^2-\frac{(\mathrm{d} r)^2}{1-2 M / r}$$

And substituting $\frac{dt}{d\tau}$ into the expression we simply get: $$ \left(\frac{d r}{d \tau}\right)^2=2 M / r-\left(1-E^2\right) $$

I am not sure about all sign's here, but is it mostly right?

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