English

Multipole expansion at the level of the action in $d$-dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-05-28 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study the multipole expansion of the long-wavelength effective action for radiative sources in (dd+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(dd) duals of the ones traditionally used in the literature. The dd-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 d3d \to 3 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