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High Precision Black Hole Scattering: Tutti Frutti vs Worldline Effective Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider black hole scattering up to the fifth Post Minkowskian (G5G^5) order and compare the predictions of the Tutti Frutti formalism to the results obtained within two different versions of Worldline Effective Field Theory. At the G4G^4 order we highlight the complete agreement between Tutti Frutti results and the results of [C. Dlapa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{130}, no.10, 101401 (2023)], and show how the Tutti Frutti approach allows one to extract the O(G3)O(G^3) angular momentum loss from the O(G4)O(G^4) impulse. We compare the sixth Post-Newtonian (6PN) accurate Tutti Frutti predictions to the recent results of [M. Driesse et al., arXiv:2411.11846 [hep-th]], which are at the G5G^5 order, and at the leading order in the two mass ratios, finding complete agreement. We highlight that this agreement involves the presence at the 5.5PN level of a nonlocal tail-of-tail contribution to the scattering (first computed in [D. Bini et al., Phys. Rev. D \textbf{102}, no.8, 084047 (2020)]), and involves, at the 6PN level, the presence of a O(G4)O(G^4) contribution to the angular momentum loss [C. Heissenberg, arXiv:2501.02904 [hep-th]]. At the second order in the mass ratios of the O(G5)O(G^5) order we predict two independent gauge-invariant observables to high-PN accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2504.20204,
  title  = {High Precision Black Hole Scattering: Tutti Frutti vs Worldline Effective Field Theory},
  author = {Donato Bini and Thibault Damour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20204},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 1 eps figure