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All-order structure of static gravitational interactions and the seventh post-Newtonian potential

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-16 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a closed formula for the computation of static post-Newtonian corrections to the two-body gravitational dynamics at any odd order, assuming the lower-order results are known. The formula is derived within a correlation function framework and exploits the Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry of the static sector, leading to a novel theoretical interpretation of the factorization theorem. As an application, we compute the gravitational interaction of two compact coalescing objects at the seventh post-Newtonian order in the static limit, which receives contributions from seven-loop graphs at order O(GN8v0)\mathcal{O}(G_N^8 v^0), and find complete agreement with the results obtained using the diagrammatic approach of the factorization theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2604.14134,
  title  = {All-order structure of static gravitational interactions and the seventh post-Newtonian potential},
  author = {Giacomo Brunello and Manoj K. Mandal and Pierpaolo Mastrolia and Raj Patil and Matteo Pegorin and Sid Smith and Jan Steinhoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.14134},
  year   = {2026}
}