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Radiation Reaction and Gravitational Waves at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We obtain the total impulse in the scattering of non-spinning binaries in general relativity at fourth Post-Minkowskian order, i.e. O(G4){\cal O}(G^4), including linear, nonlinear, and hereditary radiation-reaction effects. We derive the total radiated spacetime momentum as well as the associated energy flux. The latter can be used to compute gravitational-wave observables for generic (un)bound orbits. We employ the ("in-in") Schwinger-Keldysh worldline effective field theory framework in combination with modern "multi-loop" integration techniques from collider physics. The complete results are in agreement with various partial calculations in the Post-Newtonian/Minkowskian expansion.

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@article{arxiv.2210.05541,
  title  = {Radiation Reaction and Gravitational Waves at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order},
  author = {Christoph Dlapa and Gregor Kälin and Zhengwen Liu and Jakob Neef and Rafael A. Porto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05541},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages + Refs + Supplemental. 1 figure and 1 table. 1 computer-readable ancillary file