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We investigate the dynamics of two point-like particles through the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation of general relativity. The infinite self-field of each point-mass is regularized by means of Hadamard's concept of ``partie…

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

We present a new formulation for the mean-field propagation part of the relativistic quantum molecular dynamics, simulating an $N$-body system of interacting Gaussian wave packets via Lorentz scalar and vector potentials. Covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Yasushi Nara , Asanosuke Jinno , Koichi Murase

This study presents a general alternative scheme of the procedure and necessary conditions for solving the $n$-body problem. The presented solution is not a solution of the classical problem, where the initial conditions of positions and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Pawel Wojda

A systematic group theoretical formulation of the Pohlmeyer reduction is presented. It provides a map between the equations of motion of sigma models with target-space a symmetric space M=F/G and a class of integrable multi-component…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 J. Luis Miramontes

This paper investigates the symmetry reduction of the regularised n-body problem. The three body problem, regularised through quaternions, is examined in detail. We show that for a suitably chosen symmetry group action the space of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Suntharan Arunasalam , Holger R. Dullin , Diana M. H. Nguyen

The standard numerical tools for studying non-linear collapse of matter are Newtonian $N$-body simulations. Previous work has shown that these simulations are in accordance with General Relativity (GR) up to first order in perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Christian Fidler , Thomas Tram , Cornelius Rampf , Robert Crittenden , Kazuya Koyama , David Wands

We study the gravitational wave emission of three compact objects using post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion derived from the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Hamiltonian formulation, where we include (for the first time in this context) terms up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-24 Pablo Galaviz , Bernd Bruegmann

After a short review of the history and problems of relativistic Hamiltonian mechanics with action-at-a-distance inter-particle potentials, we study isolated two-body systems in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics. We give explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 David Alba , Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

We study the stability and chaos of three compact objects using post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion derived from the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner-Hamiltonian formulation. We include terms up to 2.5 PN order in the orbital part and the leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-06 Pablo Galaviz

In this paper, we prove the existence of a family of new non-collision periodic solutions for the classical Newtonian $n$-body problems. In our assumption, the $n=2l\geq4$ particles are invariant under the dihedral rotation group $D_l$ in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Zhiqiang Wang , Shiqing Zhang

A systolic algorithm rhythmically computes and passes data through a network of processors. We investigate the performance of systolic algorithms for implementing the gravitational N-body problem on distributed-memory computers. Systolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Dorband , Marc Hemsendorf , David Merritt

The energy of a compact binary system at the fifth post-Newtonian order is explicitly computed in the post-Minkowskian approximation by means of the Effective Field Theory approach. This result allows to determine, for the first time beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-27 Stefano Foffa

We study the equation of motion appropriate to an inspiralling binary star system whose constituent stars have strong internal gravity. We use the post-Newtonian approximation with the strong field point particle limit by which we can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Hideki Asada

We propose a new, alternative method for ab-initio calculations of the electronic structure of solids, which has been specifically adapted to treat many-body effects in a more rigorous way than many existing ab-initio methods. We start from…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Schnell , G. Czycholl , R. C. Albers

I consider a self-gravitating, N-body system assuming that the N constituents follow regular orbits about the center of mass of the cluster, where a central massive object may be present. I calculate the average over a characteristic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-06 Zacharias Roupas

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

We use gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory to calculate the displacement field that sets the initial conditions for $N$-body simulations. Using first and second-order fully relativistic perturbation theory in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Adam J. Christopherson , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Cornelius Rampf , Karim A. Malik

The resolution of the Schr\"odinger equation for the translation-invariant $N$-body harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian in $D$ dimensions with one-body and two-body interactions is performed by diagonalizing a matrix $\mathbb{J}$ of order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Cintia T. Willemyns , Claude Semay

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jacob Brandbyge , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram , Florent Leclercq , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad

We present a new N-body code, gevolution, for the evolution of large scale structure in the Universe. Our code is based on a weak field expansion of General Relativity and calculates all six metric degrees of freedom in Poisson gauge.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-05 Julian Adamek , David Daverio , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz