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We complete our previous derivation, at the sixth post-Newtonian (6PN) accuracy, of the local-in-time dynamics of a gravitationally interacting two-body system by giving two gauge-invariant characterizations of its complementary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

The geodesic equation encodes test-particle dynamics at arbitrary gravitational coupling, hence retaining all orders in the post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion. Here we explore what geodesic motion can tell us about dynamical scattering in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Clifford Cheung , Nabha Shah , Mikhail P. Solon

Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

We compute the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries at fourth Post-Minkowskian order in the large-eccentricity limit, including both potential and radiation-reaction tail effects. This is achieved by obtaining the scattering angle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

A detailed account is given on approximation schemes to the Einstein theory of general relativity where the iteration starts from the Newton theory of gravity. Two different coordinate conditions are used to represent the Einstein field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-19 Gerhard Schäfer

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We present a general mechanism to establish the existence of diffusing orbits in a large class of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems. Our approach relies on successive applications of the `outer dynamics' along homoclinic orbits to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave , Tere Seara

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 compute the instantaneous contributions to the spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms from compact binary systems in general orbits up to the third post-Newtonian order. We further extend these results for compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-12 Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun , Bala R. Iyer

A novel approach to the Effective One-Body description of gravitationally interacting two-body systems is introduced. This approach is based on the post-Minkowskian approximation scheme (perturbation theory in G, without assuming small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Thibault Damour

The post-Minkowskian expansion of Einstein's general theory of relativity has received much attention in recent years due to the possibility of harnessing the computational power of modern amplitude calculations in such a classical context.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , P. H. Damgaard , L. Plante , P. Vanhove

In this work the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach to computing observables of the classical general relativistic two-body system is presented. Compact bodies such as black holes or neutron stars are described in an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

In a previous Letter, we showed that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Mark Alaverdian , Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Trevor Scheopner , Fei Teng

By combining the KMOC-formalism with the exponential representation of the scattering matrix we show that the two-body scattering angle is given by the corresponding matrix element of the exponential representation. This holds to all orders…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Poul H. Damgaard , Elias Roos Hansen , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

The Effective One-Body formalism of the gravitational two-body problem in general relativity is reconsidered in the light of recent scattering amplitude calculations. Based on the kinematic relationship between momenta and the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

Using scattering amplitudes, we obtain the potential contributions to conservative binary dynamics in general relativity at fourth post-Minkowskian order, ${\cal O}(G^4)$. As in previous lower-order calculations, we harness powerful tools…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

Using the spinning, supersymmetric Worldline Quantum Field Theory formalism we compute the momentum impulse and spin kick from a scattering of two spinning black holes or neutron stars up to quadratic order in spin at third post-Minkowskian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

We revisit the old problem of the self-force on a particle moving in a weak-field spacetime in the context of renewed interest in two-body gravitational scattering. We analytically calculate the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Samuel E. Gralla , Kunal Lobo

Scattering and transition amplitudes with three-hadron final states play an important role in nuclear and particle physics. However, predicting such quantities using numerical Lattice QCD is very difficult, in part because of the effects of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-17 Maxwell T. Hansen

Amplitude methods have proven to be a promising technique to perform Post-Minkowskian calculations used as inputs to construct gravitational waveforms. In this paper, we show how these methods can be extended beyond the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Mariana Carrillo-González , Claudia de Rham , Andrew J. Tolley