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Simple, efficient method of calculating the Detweiler-Whiting singular field to very high order

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-11-04 v3

Abstract

Most self-force calculations rely, in one way or another, on representations of a particle's Detweiler- Whiting singular field. We present a simple method of calculating the singular field to high order in a local expansion in powers of distance from the particle. As a demonstration, we compute the singular field to 14th order in distance, 10 orders beyond the previous state of the art, in the simple case of a scalar charge in circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. We provide the result in both a 4-dimensional form and a decomposed form suitable for use in an m-mode puncture scheme. Our method should have applications in overcoming bottlenecks in current self-force calculations at both first and second order in perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.2404.10082,
  title  = {Simple, efficient method of calculating the Detweiler-Whiting singular field to very high order},
  author = {Patrick Bourg and Adam Pound and Samuel D. Upton and Rodrigo Panosso Macedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.10082},
  year   = {2024}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures