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By means of the scattering angles, we obtain an effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effects up to fourth post-Minkowskian order, which is the foundation of the effective-one-body theory. We note that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-17 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jieci Wang

The tidal response of a compact object is a key gravitational-wave observable encoding information about its interior. This link is subtle due to the nonlinearities of general relativity. We show that considering a scattering process…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Gastón Creci , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

We utilize various computational techniques in flat and curved backgrounds to calculate the classical gravitational Compton amplitude up to the second post-Minkowskian order. Our novel result supports the use of worldline quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Nabha Shah

We present a framework for systematic computations of scattering amplitudes for gravitational Raman scattering, -- the inelastic scattering of massless fields off compact relativistic objects. We focus on the small-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Yue-Zhou Li , Julio Parra-Martinez , Zihan Zhou

A recent proposal reinterprets the eikonal as the scattering generator, which computes scattering observables through an action as a symmetry generator. The aim of this study is to incorporate dissipative effects from radiation into this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Jung-Wook Kim

We compute the next-to-leading-order radiation-reaction modification to the harmonic coordinate quasi-Keplerian parametrization of the binary dynamics, the two bodies undergoing a scattering process. The solution for the radiation-reaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Sara Rufrano Aliberti

We compute the rotations, during a scattering encounter, of the spins of two gravitationally interacting particles at second-order in the gravitational constant (second post-Minkowskian order). Following a strategy introduced in Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

We compute the tail contributions to the gravitational-wave mode amplitudes for compact binaries in eccentric orbits at the third post-Newtonian order of general relativity. We combine them with the already available instantaneous pieces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-24 Yannick Boetzel , Chandra Kant Mishra , Guillaume Faye , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

Worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) has proven itself a powerful tool for classical two-body scattering calculations in general relativity. In this paper we develop a new worldline action involving bosonic oscillators, which enables the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Kays Haddad , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka

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

We describe how the global operator induced on the boundary of an asymptotically Minkowski space links two asymptotically hyperbolic spaces and an asymptotically de Sitter space, and compute the scattering operator of the linked problem in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Andras Vasy

We introduce a new methodology for deriving the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems. Our approach combines, in a novel way, several theoretical formalisms: post-Newtonian, post-Minkowskian,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

The post-post-Newtonian (2PN) accurate mass quadrupole moment, for compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio, moving in general orbits is obtained by the multi-polar post Minkowskian approach of Blanchet, Damour, and Iyer (BDI). Using this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

In this work, we derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries in the massless scalar-tensor theories using the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. Our main result is an analytic expression of the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Laura Bernard , Tamanna Jain , Stavros Mougiakakos

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit contributions in the total energy flux emitted in gravitational waves by compact binary systems. Such contributions correspond to the post-Newtonian order 3.5PN for maximally spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-20 Alejandro Bohe , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet

In this work we derive for the first time the complete gravitational cubic-in-spin effective action at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion for the interaction of generic compact binaries via the effective field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-15 Michèle Levi , Stavros Mougiakakos , Mariana Vieira

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Kathrin Stoldt

Gravitational waves emitted in the late inspiral of binary neutron stars are affected by their tidal deformation. We study the tidal dynamics in full general relativity through matched-asymptotic expansions and prove that the dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , K. J. Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Hang Yu , Nicolás Yunes

We use the post-Newtonian-Affine model to assess the validity of the adiabatic approximation in modeling tidal effects in the phase evolution of compact binary systems. We compute the dynamical evolution of the tidal tensor, which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-22 Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Francesco Pannarale , Valeria Ferrari

We derive the post-Newtonian next-to-leading order conservative spin-orbit and spin(a)-spin(b) gravitational interaction Hamiltonians for arbitrary many compact objects. The spin-orbit Hamiltonian completes the knowledge of Hamiltonians up…

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