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We derive the equations of motion of an extended test body in the context of Einstein's theory of gravitation. The equations of motion are obtained via a multipolar approximation method and are given up to the quadrupolar order. Special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jan Steinhoff , Dirk Puetzfeld

In the Newtonian limit of $f(R)$ gravity, for an isolated self-gravitating system consisting of $N$ extended fluid bodies, the inter-body dynamics are studied by applying the symmetric and trace-free formalism in terms of irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Bofeng Wu , Xiao Zhang

The dynamics of extended bodies is a fundamental problem in any gravitational theory. In the case of General Relativity, this problem is under study since the theory was published. Several methods have been developed and different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-04 William Almonacid

The "external" or "bulk" motion of extended bodies is studied in general relativity. Compact material objects of essentially arbitrary shape, spin, internal composition, and velocity are allowed as long as there is no direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-07 Abraham I. Harte

This article serves as a pedagogical introduction to the problem of motion in classical field theories. The primary focus is on self-interaction: How does an object's own field affect its motion? General laws governing the self-force and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Abraham I. Harte

We present an action principle formulation for the study of motion of an extended body in General Relativity in the limit of weak gravitational field. This gives the classical equations of motion for multipole moments of arbitrary order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Jeeva Anandan , Naresh Dadhich , Parampreet Singh

We give an overview of the derivation of multipolar equations of motion of extended test bodies for a wide set of gravitational theories beyond the standard general relativistic framework. The classes of theories covered range from simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Yuri N. Obukhov , Dirk Puetzfeld

This paper employs the post-Newtonian approximations of scalar-tensor theory of gravity along with the Cartesian STF tensors and the Blanchet-Damour multipole formalism to derive translational and rotational equations of motion of N…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Sergei M. Kopeikin

We discuss the motion of extended objects in a spacetime by considering a gravitational field created by these objects. We define multipole moments of the objects as a classification by Lie group SO(3). Then, we construct an energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Akira Ohashi

We give a surface integral derivation of post-1-Newtonian translational equations of motion for a system of arbitrarily structured bodies, including the coupling to all the bodies' mass and current multipole moments. The derivation requires…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-07 Étienne Racine , Éanna É. Flanagan

We present, for the first time, an action principle that gives the equations of motion of an extended body possessing multipole moments in an external gravitational field, in the weak field limit. From the action, the experimentally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeeva Anandan , Naresh Dadhich , Parampreet Singh

This paper contains discussion of the problem of motion of extended i.e. non point test bodies in multidimensional space. Extended bodies are described in terms of so called multipole moments. Using approximated form of equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Ewa Czuchry , Wojciech Kopczynski

Applying Dixon's general equations of motion for extended bodies, we compute the Papapetrou's equations for an extended test body on static and isotropic metrics. We incorporate the force and the torque terms which involve multipole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 William Almonacid , Leonardo Castañeda

Perhaps the most powerful method for deriving the Newtonian gravitational interaction between two masses is the multipole expansion. Once inner multipoles are calculated for a particular shape this shape can be rotated, translated, and even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Julian Stirling , Stephan Schlamminger

This paper constructs the multipole expansion (in general relativity) of the gravitational field generated by a slowly-moving isolated source. We introduce some definitions for the source multipole moments, valid to all orders in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luc Blanchet

We study the acceleration and collisions of rigid bodies in special relativity. After a brief historical review, we give a physical definition of the term `rigid body' in relativistic straight line motion. We show that the definition of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jerrold Franklin

In this paper, it is the first time to construct a complete post-Newtonian (PN) model of a rigid body by means of a new constraint on the mass current density and mass density. In our PN rigid body model most of relations, such as spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Chongming Xu , Jin-he Tao , Xuejun Wu

A set of equations describing the rotational motion of the Earth relative to the GCRS is formulated in the approximation of rigidly rotating multipoles. The external bodies are supposed to be mass monopoles. The derived set of formulas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Klioner , M. Soffel , Ch. Xu , X. Wu

In order to shed some light in the meaning of the relativistic multipolar expansions we consider different static solutions of the axially symmetric vacuum Einstein equations that in the non relativistic limit have same Newtonian moments.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Bruno Boisseau , Patricio S. Letelier

The present paper derives the post-Newtonian Lagrangian of translational motion of N arbitrary-structured bodies with all mass and spin multipoles in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The multipoles depend on time and evolve in accordance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-21 Sergei M. Kopeikin
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