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Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

Using the new methodology introduced in a recent Letter [Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 123}, 231104 (2019)], we present the details of the computation of the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems at the fifth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

In a previous paper, based on the black hole perturbation approach, we formulated a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Sanjay Jhingan , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We semi-classically calculate the entropy of a scalar field in the background of the BTZ black hole, and derive the perimeter law of the entropy. The proper length from the horizon to the ultraviolet cutoff is independent of both the mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Sung-Won Kim , Won T. Kim , Young-Jai Park , Hyeonjoon Shin

Recent developments in post-Minkowksian (PM) calculations have led to a fast-growing body of weak-field perturbative information. As such, there is major interest within the gravitational wave community as to how this information can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Shaun Swain , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

We put forward a broader picture of the effective theory of a spinning particle within the EFT of spinning gravitating objects, through which we derive and establish the new precision frontier at the fifth PN (5PN) order. This frontier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-20 Michèle Levi , Zhewei Yin

The scattering of massless waves of helicity $|h|=0,\frac{1}{2},1$ in Schwarzschild and Kerr backgrounds is revisited in the long-wavelenght regime. Using a novel description of such backgrounds in terms of gravitating massive particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

This paper aims to investigate the scattering of fermions by spherically symmetric MOG black holes, which are a type of black holes encountered in scalar-tensor-vector modified gravitational theories. After determining the scattering modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-27 Ciprian A. Sporea

We compute the gravitational waveform associated with a radially infalling particle in a Schwarzschild black hole working in the center-of-mass system and in a post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. Our results reach the highest accuracy level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Giorgio Di Russo , Donato Bini

We study a recently identified four-loop Feynman integral that contains a three-dimensional Calabi-Yau geometry and contributes to the scattering of black holes in classical gravity at fifth post-Minkowskian and second self-force order (5PM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Hjalte Frellesvig , Roger Morales , Sebastian Pögel , Stefan Weinzierl , Matthias Wilhelm

Applications of effective field theory (EFT) and scattering amplitudes to gravitational problems have recently produced many unique results that advanced our understanding of the dynamics of compact binaries. Many of these results were made…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Jovan Markovic , Mikhail M. Ivanov

A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to describe classical scattering of a pair of black holes. The link is formally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

We derive the secular evolution of the orbital elements of a stellar-mass object orbiting a spinning massive black hole. We use the post-Newtonian approximation in harmonic coordinates, with test-body equations of motion for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford M. Will , Matthew Maitra

We develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism to solve for the conservative dynamics of binary systems in gravity via Post-Minkowskian (PM) scattering data. Our framework combines a systematic EFT approach to compute the deflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Gregor Kälin , Rafael A. Porto

We utilize three complementary approaches to pinpoint the exact form of scattering amplitudes in Schwarzschild spacetime. First, we solve the Regge-Wheeler equation perturbatively in the small-frequency regime. We use the obtained solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-26 Gleb Aminov , Paolo Arnaudo

We present the contribution from potential interactions to the dynamics of non-spinning binaries to fourth Post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. This is achieved by computing the scattering angle to ${\cal O}(G^4)$ using the effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We consider black hole scattering up to the fifth Post Minkowskian ($G^5$) order and compare the predictions of the Tutti Frutti formalism to the results obtained within two different versions of Worldline Effective Field Theory. At the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

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

In an accompanying paper, we have formulated two types of regulariz_ation methods to calculate the scalar self-force on a particle of charge $q$ moving around a black hole of mass $M$, one of which is called the ``power expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Hiroyuki Nakano , Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki