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Gravitational waves from the inspiral of a stellar-size black hole to a supermassive black hole can be accurately approximated by a point particle moving in a Kerr background. This paper presents progress on finding the electromagnetic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias S. Keidl , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

We present a practical method for calculating the local gravitational self-force (often called ``radiation-reaction force'') for a pointlike particle orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This is an implementation of the method of {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Leor Barack , Yasushi Mino , Hiroyuki Nakano , Amos Ori , Misao Sasaki

The self-force is the leading method in modelling waveforms for extreme mass ratio inspirals, a key target of ESA's future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. In modelling these systems, one approximates the smaller body as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Anna Heffernan

We formulate a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a black hole of mass $M$, where $\mu\ll M$. At first order in $\mu$, the geometry is perturbed and the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Sanjay Jhingan , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We obtain all ``regularization parameters'' (RP) needed for calculating the gravitational and electromagnetic self forces for an arbitrary geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. These RP values are required for implementing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

We consider the self-force on a charged particle moving in a curved spacetime with a background electromagnetic field, extending previous studies to situations in which gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations are comparable. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Thomas M. Linz , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

A new gauge theory of gravity is presented. The theory is constructed in a flat background spacetime and employs gauge fields to ensure that all relations between physical quantities are independent of the positions and orientations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Lasenby , Chris Doran , Stephen Gull

In the context of a gauge theory for the translation group, we have obtained, for a spinless particle, a gravitational analog of the Lorentz force. Then, we have shown that this force equation can be rewritten in terms of magnitudes related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 V. C. de Andrade , J. G. Pereira

We present an algorithm for calculating the metric perturbations and gravitational self-force for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) with eccentric orbits. The massive black hole is taken to be Schwarzschild and metric perturbations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Thomas Osburn , Erik Forseth , Charles Evans , Seth Hopper

This paper presents the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on a small compact object on an eccentric equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole to first order in the mass-ratio. That is the pointwise correction to the object's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Maarten van de Meent

We study the self-force acting on a static charged point-like particle near a Schwarzschild black hole. We obtain the point-like particle as a limit of a spacetime describing a big neutral black hole with a small charged massive object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Pavel Krtouš , Andrei Zelnikov

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

In the general relativistic description of gravitation, geometry replaces the concept of force. This is possible because of the universal character of free fall, and would break down in its absence. On the other hand, the teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

The foundations are laid for the numerical computation of the actual worldline for a particle orbiting a black hole and emitting gravitational waves. The essential practicalities of this computation are here illustrated for a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Eirini Messaritaki , Bernard F. Whiting

Recently, two independent calculations have been presented of finite-mass ("self-force") effects on the orbit of a point mass around a Schwarzschild black hole. While both computations are based on the standard mode-sum method, they differ…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Norichika Sago , Leor Barack , Steven Detweiler

The traditional effective-source method is hampered by complex analytical expressions and the inherent smoothness limit, which incur high computational costs and complicate implementation. To overcome these limitations, we introduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu , Wenting Zhou

In a foregoing paper, gravity has been interpreted as the pressure force exerted on matter at the scale of elementary particles by a perfect fluid. Under the condition that Newtonian gravity must be recovered in the incompressible case, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon

We describe gauge theories which allow to retrieve a large class of gravitational theories, including, MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and its topological extension to Loop Quantum Gravity via the Pontrjagin characteristic class involving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 J. Thibaut , S. Lazzarini

We formulate a Hamiltonian description of the orbital motion of a point particle in Kerr spacetime for generic (eccentric, inclined) orbits, which accounts for the effects of the conservative part of the gravitational self-force. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-12 Ryuichi Fujita , Soichiro Isoyama , Alexandre Le Tiec , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

In a path-integral approach to quantum cosmology, the Lorenz gauge-averaging term is studied for Euclidean Maxwell theory on a portion of flat four-space bounded by two concentric three-spheres, but with arbitrary values of the gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito , Giuseppe Pollifrone