On Post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-10-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We describe the computation of post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity from scattering amplitudes. Using a relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation, we relate perturbative amplitudes of massive scalars coupled to gravity to the post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians of classical General Relativity to any order in Newton's constant. We illustrate this by deriving an Hamiltonian for binary black holes without spin up to 2nd order in the post-Minkowskian expansion and demonstrate explicitly the equivalence with the recently proposed method based on an effective field theory matching.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.01579,
title = {On Post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity},
author = {Andrea Cristofoli and N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr and Poul H. Damgaard and Pierre Vanhove},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01579},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
17 pages. v2: minor corrections version to appear in Physical Review D