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Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. In this work, we calculate the gravitational deflection of light using the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)],…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

We describe a post-Minkowskii approximation of general relativity as a power series expansion in G, Newton's gravitational constant. Material sources are hidden behind boundaries, and only the vacuum Einstein equations are considered. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Lee H. Brown

We consider the pion-photon transition form factor at low to intermediate spacelike momenta within the theoretical framework of light-cone sum rules. We derive predictions which take into account all currently known contributions stemming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-24 S. V. Mikhailov , A. V. Pimikov , N. G. Stefanis

Stars near the Galactic center reach a few percent of light speed during pericenter passage, which makes post-Newtonian effects potentially detectable. We formulate the orbit equations in Hamiltonian form such that the $O(v^2/c^2)$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-02 Miguel Preto , Prasenjit Saha

Recent experiments on ultra slow light in strongly dispersive media by several research groups reporting slowing down of the optical pulses down to speeds of a few metres per second encourage us to examine the intriguing possibility of…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-27 N. Kumar

The Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which promotes the gravitational constant to a dynamical scalar field, predicts a value for the Eddington-Robertson post-Newtonian parameter gamma that is significantly different from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-12 John W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

We recently suggested a nonlocal modification of Einstein's field equations in which Newton's constant $G$ was promoted to a covariant differential operator $G_\Lambda(\Box_g)$. The latter contains two independent contributions, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-12 Alain Dirkes

Within the framework of the scalar-tensor theory (STT), its second post-Newtonian (2PN) approximation is obtained with Chandrasekhar's approach. By focusing on an $N$-point-masses system as the first step, we reduce the metric to its 2PN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-05 Xue-Mei Deng , Yi Xie

The article presents the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting two-point-mass systems up to the eight order in the inverse power of the velocity of light, i.e.\ 4th post-Newtonian (4PN) order, and up to quadratic order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Jaranowski , Gerhard Schäfer

Reliable predictions of general relativity theory are extracted using approximation methods. Among these, the powerful post-Newtonian approximation provides us with our best insights into the problems of motion and gravitational radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-12 Luc Blanchet

The post-Newtonian approximation is a method for solving Einstein's field equations for physical systems in which motions are slow compared to the speed of light and where gravitational fields are weak. Yet it has proven to be remarkably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Clifford M. Will

The increasing sophistication and accuracy of numerical simulations of compact binaries (especially binary black holes) presents the opportunity to test the regime in which post-Newtonian (PN) predictions for the emitted gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence E. Kidder

The Hamiltonian for a system of relativistic bodies interacting by their gravitational field is found in the post-Minkowskian approximation, including all terms linear in the gravitational constant. It is given in a surprisingly simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-03 Tomas Ledvinka , Gerhard Schaefer , Jiri Bicak

Using post-Newtonian equations of motion for fluid bodies valid to the second post-Newtonian order, we derive the equations of motion for binary systems with finite-sized, non-spinning but arbitrarily shaped bodies. In particular we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Mitchell , Clifford M. Will

Light deflection in the post-linear gravitational field of two bounded point-like masses is treated. Both the light source and the observer are assumed to be located at infinity in an asymptotically flat space. The equations of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael H. Brügmann

We calculate the explicit equations of motion for non-spinning compact objects to 2.5 post-Newtonian order, or O(v/c)^5 beyond Newtonian gravity, in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We use the formalism of the Direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-14 Saeed Mirshekari , Clifford M. Will

This work systematically investigates the post-Newtonian behavior of general quadratic gravity in the weak-field regime. By extending the Einstein-Hilbert action to include quadratic curvature terms as $\mathcal{L}\propto R-\lambda C^2+\mu…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Jie Zhu , Hao Li

We consider $\lambda\phi^{4}$ kink and sine-Gordon soliton in the presence of a minimal length uncertainty proportional to the Planck length. The modified Hamiltonian contains an extra term proportional to $p^4$ and the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-24 Maryam Asghari , Pouria Pedram

Relativistic models of light propagation adopted for high-precision astrometry are based on the parametrised post-Newtonian formalism, which provides a framework for examining the effects of a hypothetical violation of general relativity on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 A. G. Butkevich , A. Vecchiato , B. Bucciarelli , M. Gai , M. Crosta , M. G. Lattanzi

In a previous paper we derived a post-Newtonian approximation to cosmology which, in contrast to former Newtonian and post-Newtonian cosmological theories, has a well-posed initial value problem. In this paper, this new post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Tamath Rainsford