Modified light-cylinder and centrifugal acceleration in Schwarzschild geometry

We examine the motion of an electron constrained to follow a magnetic field line near a primordial sub-stellar mass black hole. Earlier studies treated the problem in flat (Minkowski) spacetime, yielding qualitatively correct results and introducing a light cylinder (LC - a hypothetical surface where the linear velocity of rotation exactly equals the speed of light). However, this picture changes significantly when gravity is included. By analyzing the electron’s dynamics in the Schwarzschild metric, we obtain a concept of modified light cylinder (MLC) whose geometry no longer resembles a cylinder. We then determine the maximum energies attainable by the electrons under the limiting effects of inverse Compton scattering, as well as curvature and synchrotron radiation.