Multipole expansion at the level of the action in $d$-dimensions
Abstract
In this paper we study the multipole expansion of the long-wavelength effective action for radiative sources in (+1) spacetime dimensions. We present detailed expressions for the multipole moments for the case of scalar-, electromagnetic-, and (linearized) gravitational-wave emission. For electromagnetism and gravity, we derive expressions for the odd-parity, magnetic-type moments as SO() duals of the ones traditionally used in the literature. The -dimensional case features a novel set of `Weyl-type' moments, coupling to the spatial part of the Weyl tensor, which are absent in three dimensions. Agreement is found in the overlap with previous known results, notably in the limit. Due to its reliance on dimensional regularization, the results presented here play a crucial role for the further development of the Effective Field Theory approach to gravitational dynamics, and in particular for the computation of the gravitational-wave flux, starting at the third post-Newtonian order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.02868,
title = {Multipole expansion at the level of the action in $d$-dimensions},
author = {Loris Amalberti and François Larrouturou and Zixin Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02868},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
26 pages, v2: typos corrected, published version