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The gravitational self-force on a point particle moving in a vacuum background spacetime can be expressed as an integral over the past worldline of the particle, the so-called tail term. In this paper, we consider that piece of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Warren G. Anderson , Eanna E. Flanagan , Adrian C. Ottewill

We calculate the self force acting on a scalar particle which is falling radially into a Schwarzschild black hole. We treat the particle's self-field as a linear perturbation over the fixed Schwarzschild background. The force is calculated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Leor Barack , Lior M. Burko

The potential concept that is successful in classical electrodynamics should also be applicable to the nonlinear electromagnetic forces acting on matter. The obvious method of determining these potentials should be provided by Helmholtz's…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 Wolfgang Engelhardt

The self-force describes the effect of a particle's own gravitational field on its motion. While the motion is geodesic in the test-mass limit, it is accelerated to first order in the particle's mass. In this contribution I review the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Eric Poisson

This is the second in a series of papers aimed at developing a practical time-domain method for self-force calculations in Kerr spacetime. The key elements of the method are (i) removal of a singular part of the perturbation field with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-06 Sam R. Dolan , Barry Wardell , Leor Barack

The inverse problem of recovering point sources represents an important class of applied inverse problems. However, there is still a lack of neural network-based methods for point source identification, mainly due to the inherent solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Tianhao Hu , Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

A new approximation method for inverting the Poisson's equation is presented for a continuously distributed and finite-sized source in an unbound domain. The advantage of this image multipole method arises from its ability to place the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James H. H. Chan , Tzihong Chiueh

An accurate force calculation with the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is challenging, as it requires the electric field on the molecular surface. Here, we present a calculation of the electric field on the solute-solvent interface that is exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Ian Addison-Smith , Horacio V. Guzmán , Christopher D. Cooper

This article is the second of a series of three presenting an alternative method to compute the one-loop scalar integrals. It extends the results of the first article to general complex masses. Let us remind the main features enjoyed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon , Y. Shimizu , M. S. Zidi

The electromagnetic self-force of a point charge moving arbitrarily on a rectilinear trajectory is calculated by averaging its retarded electric self-field over a sphere of infinitesimal radius centered on the charge's present position. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 V. Hnizdo , G. Vaman

In this paper we investigate the motion of small compact objects in non-vacuum spacetimes using methods from effective field theory in curved spacetime. Although a vacuum formulation is sufficient in many astrophysical contexts, there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Peter Zimmerman

We investigate the use of the Gegenbauer procedure for time-domain reconstruction in frequency-domain calculations of the self-force on a particle orbiting a black hole. The conventional technique relies on the so-called method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack , Oliver Long

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will be key sources for LISA. However, accurately extracting system parameters from a detected EMRI waveform will require self-force calculations at second order in perturbation theory, which are still…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Samuel D. Upton , Adam Pound

Understanding the feasible power flow region is of central importance to power system analysis. In this paper, we propose a geometric view of the power system loadability problem. By using rectangular coordinates for complex voltages, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Y. Weng , R. Rajagopal , B. Zhang

A problem of analytical continuation of scattering data to the negative-energy region to obtain information about bound states is discussed within an exactly solvable potential model. This work is continuation of the previous one by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 L. D. Blokhintsev , A. S. Kadyrov , A. M. Mukhamedzhanov , D. A. Savin

We calculate the unregularized monopole and dipole contributions to the self-force acting on a particle of small mass in a circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. From a self-force point of view, these non-radiating modes are as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steve Detweiler , Eric Poisson

The self-force problem---which asks how self-interaction affects a body's motion---has been poorly studied for spacetime dimensions $d \neq 4$. We remedy this for all $d \geq 3$ by nonperturbatively constructing momenta such that forces and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Abraham I. Harte , Peter Taylor , Éanna É. Flanagan

Computing the rate-distortion function for continuous sources is commonly regarded as a standard continuous optimization problem. When numerically addressing this problem, a typical approach involves discretizing the source space and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

We calculate the gravitational self force acting on a pointlike particle of mass $\mu$, set in a circular geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. Our calculation is done in the Lorenz gauge: For given orbital radius, we first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-08-30 Leor Barack , Norichika Sago

In this paper, we present the analytical and numerical study of the optimization approach for determining the space-dependent source function in the parabolic inverse source problem using partial boundary measurements. The Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 T. Sharma , L. Beilina , K. Sakthivel