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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…

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The Fokker action governing the motion of compact binary systems without spins is derived in harmonic coordinates at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation (4PN) of general relativity. Dimensional regularization is used for treating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , Alejandro Bohé , Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat

This paper extends the research on the self-consistent effective-one-body theory of a real spinless two-body system based on the post-Minkowskian approximation (Science China, 65, 100411, (2022)) to the case of a binary system for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jieci Wang

Advanced methods for computing perturbative, quantum-gravitational scattering amplitudes show great promise for improving our knowledge of classical gravitational dynamics. This is especially true in the weak-field and arbitrary-speed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Andrea Antonelli , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Maarten van de Meent , Justin Vines

We establish the set of independent variables suitable to monitor the complicated evolution of the spinning compact binary during the inspiral. Our approach is valid up to the second post-Newtonian order, including leading order spin-orbit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 László Árpád Gergely

We confirm the generalized actions of the complete NLO cubic-in-spin interactions for generic compact binaries which were first tackled via an extension of the EFT of spinning gravitating objects. We first reduce these generalized actions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-18 Michèle Levi , Roger Morales , Zhewei Yin

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 paper we derive for the first time the complete gravitational quartic-in-spin interaction of generic compact binaries at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion. The derivation builds on the effective field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-15 Michèle Levi , Fei Teng

We demonstrate equivalences, under simple mappings, between the dynamics of three distinct systems---(i) an arbitrary-mass-ratio two-spinning-black-hole system, (ii) a spinning test black hole in a background Kerr spacetime, and (iii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Justin Vines

We derive the equations of motion of spinning compact binaries including the spin-orbit (SO) coupling terms one post-Newtonian (PN) order beyond the leading-order effect. For black holes maximally spinning this corresponds to 2.5PN order.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno

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

The leading order finite size effects due to spin, namely that of the cubic and quartic in spin interactions, are derived for the first time for generic compact binaries via the effective field theory for gravitating spinning objects. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Michele Levi , Jan Steinhoff

The aim of this note is to describe the computation of post-Minkwoskian Hamiltonians in modified theories of gravity. Exploiting a recent relation between amplitudes of massive scalars and Hamiltonians for relativistic point-particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrea Cristofoli

We compute the leading order contribution to radiative losses in the case of spinning binaries with aligned spins due to their spin-orbit interaction. The orbital average along hyperboliclike orbits is taken through an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Piero Rettegno

The orbital motion of inspiralling and coalescing black hole binaries can be investigated using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical methods within general relativity: post-Newtonian expansions, black hole perturbation theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 Alexandre Le Tiec

We derive the conservative secular evolution of precessing compact binaries to second post-Newtonian order accuracy, with leading-order spin-orbit, spin-spin and mass quadrupole-monopole contributions included. The emerging closed system of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Márton Tápai , Zoltán Keresztes , László Árpád Gergely

Accurate modeling of compact binaries is essential for gravitational-wave detection and parameter estimation, with spin being an important effect to include in waveform models. In this paper, we derive new post-Newtonian (PN) results for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Mohammed Khalil , Matteo Sergola , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We investigate the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear biharmonic Schr\"odinger equation \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta^2 u - |x|^{-b}|u|^p u = 0 \quad \text{on } \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^N, \] in the energy-critical regime, $p = \frac{8 -…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Carlos M. Guzmán , Sahbi Keraani , Chengbin Xu

Using the multipolar post-Minkowskian and matching formalism we compute the gravitational waveform of inspiralling compact binaries moving in quasi-circular orbits at the second and a half post-Newtonian (2.5PN) approximation to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 K G Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R Iyer , Moh'd S S Qusailah

When considering how self-interaction affects an object's motion, it can be convenient to decompose the self-force into conservative and dissipative pieces. As a toy model for understanding such decompositions of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Francisco M. Blanco , Eanna E. Flanagan , Abraham I. Harte