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Higher-order-in-spin interaction Hamiltonians for binary black holes from Poincar\'e invariance

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-12-30 v2

Abstract

The fulfillment of the space-asymptotic Poincar\'e algebra is used to derive new higher-order-in-spin interaction Hamiltonians for binary black holes in the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner canonical formalism almost completing the set of the formally 1/c41/c^4 spin-interaction Hamiltonians involving nonlinear spin terms. To linear order in GG, the expressions for the S3pS^3p- and the S2p2S^2p^2-Hamiltonians are completed. It is also shown that there are no quartic nonlinear S4S^4-Hamiltonians to linear order in GG.

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@article{arxiv.0809.2208,
  title  = {Higher-order-in-spin interaction Hamiltonians for binary black holes from Poincar\'e invariance},
  author = {Steven Hergt and Gerhard Schäfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2208},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

REVTeX4, 14 pages; center-of-mass-vector corrected Eq. (2.25) and modified coefficients of the Hamiltonian Eq. (7.3) and corresponding source terms Eqs. (7.5) and (7.6) following hereof; version to appear in Phys Rev D

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