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Tail contributions to gravitational conservative dynamics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-01-12 v2

Abstract

We compute tail contributions to the conservative dynamics of a generic self-gravitating system, for every multipole order, of either electric and magnetic parity. Such contributions arise when gravitational radiation is backscattered by the static curvature generated by the source itself and reabsorbed. Tail processes are relevant for the study of compact binary dynamics starting from the fourth post-Newtonian order. Within this context, we resolve a discrepancy recently arised at fifth post-Newtonian order between Effective Field Theory and self-force results.

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@article{arxiv.2110.14146,
  title  = {Tail contributions to gravitational conservative dynamics},
  author = {Gabriel Luz Almeida and Stefano Foffa and Riccardo Sturani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14146},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes wrt v1, to make it conform to the version published on PRD

R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:13:14.034Z