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Using the worldline action in [2409.05860], we derive the total even-in-velocity (relative) impulse, scattering angle, and time delay at fifth post-Newtonian (5PN) order, including radiation-reaction and hereditary contributions at ${\cal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Rafael A. Porto , Massimiliano M. Riva

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

We compute the quadrupole mode of the gravitational waveform of inspiralling compact binaries at the third and a half post-Newtonian (3.5PN) approximation of general relativity. The computation is performed using the multipolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-01 Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

Hamiltonian formalisms provide powerful tools for the computation of approximate analytic solutions of the Einstein field equations. The post-Newtonian computations of the explicit analytic dynamics and motion of compact binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Gerhard Schäfer , Piotr Jaranowski

To establish a self-consistent effective one-body (EOB) theory that describes the dynamical evolution of binary systems based on the post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation, where the Hamiltonian, radiation reaction force, and waveforms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long

We investigate the (conservative) dynamics of binary black holes using the Hamiltonian formulation of the post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion. The Hamiltonian we use includes spin-orbit coupling, spin-spin coupling, and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael D. Hartl , Alessandra Buonanno

The instantaneous contributions to the 3PN gravitational wave luminosity from the inspiral phase of a binary system of compact objects moving in a quasi elliptical orbit is computed using the multipolar post-Minkowskian wave generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 K. G. Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Moh'd S. S. Qusailah

The post-Minkowskian approach to gravitationally interacting binary systems ({\it i.e.}, perturbation theory in $G$, without assuming small velocities) is extended to the computation of the dynamical effects induced by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We consider an application of the Multipolar Post Minkowskian formalism to the case of a two-body system in radial fall. We compute, within the post-Newtonian approximation, the associated gravitational waveform reaching the 2.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Donato Bini , Giorgio Di Russo

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 derive spin-orbit coupling effects on the gravitational field and equations of motion of compact binaries in the 2.5 post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity, one PN order beyond where spin effects first appear. Our method is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Akira Ohashi , Benjamin J. Owen

This paper derives the total power or energy loss rate generated in the form of gravitational waves by an inspiralling compact binary system to the five halves post-Newtonian (2.5PN) approximation of general relativity. Extending a recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet

Recent perturbative self-force computations (Shah, Friedman & Whiting, submitted to Phys. Rev. {\bf D}, arXiv:1312.1952 [gr-qc]), both numerical and analytical, have determined that half-integral post-Newtonian terms arise in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-14 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bernard F. Whiting

Although the post-Newtonian Lagrangian formalism is widely used in relativistic dynamical and statistical studies of test bodies moving around arbitrary mass distributions, the corresponding general Hamiltonian formalism is still relatively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-23 Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Javier Ramos-Caro , Alberto Saa

Building upon recent progress in applying on-shell amplitude techniques to classical observables in general relativity, we propose a closed-form formula for the conservative Hamiltonian of a spinning binary system at the 1st…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim , Sangmin Lee

The article reviews the current status of a theoretical approach to the problem of the emission of gravitational waves by isolated systems in the context of general relativity. Part A of the article deals with general post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 Luc Blanchet

We review our recent derivation of a Fokker action describing the conservative dynamics of a compact binary system at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation of general relativity. The two bodies are modeled by point particles, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-18 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , Alejandro Bohé , Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat

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

We study the Post-Minkowskian (PM) and Post-Newtonian (PN) expansions of the gravitational three-body effective potential. At order 2PM a formal result is given in terms of a differential operator acting on the maximal generalized cut of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-11 Florian Loebbert , Jan Plefka , Canxin Shi , Tianheng Wang

In this work we complete the spin-dependent conservative dynamics of inspiralling compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian order, and in particular the derivation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-squared interaction potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-23 Michèle Levi , Jan Steinhoff