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We study perturbations induced by a light particle scattering off a Schwarzschild black hole. Exploiting recent results for the wave propagation in this geometry, we derive the fields that this process induces on the horizon to leading…

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We study scattering of polarized light by a rotating (Kerr) black hole of the mass M and the angular momentum J. In order to keep trace of the polarization dependence of photon trajectories one can use the following dimensionless parameter:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

We study the EFT of a spinning compact object and show that with appropriate gauge fixing, computations become amenable to worldline quantum field theory techniques. We use the resulting action to compute Compton and one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Maor Ben-Shahar

Several scenarios have been proposed in which the orbits of binary black holes enter the band of a gravitational wave detector with significant eccentricity. To avoid missing these signals or biasing parameter estimation it is important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil J. Cornish , Joey Shapiro Key

In Article I, a harmonic-oscillator model of a universe of n quarks is infinitesimally modified to eliminate the background reference frame. As a result, quark trajectories exhibit the unification of gravity and the harmonic oscillator near…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcia J. King

Using the $\delta N$ formalism we calculate the one-loop correction to the large-scale power spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the standard scenario where primordial black holes are formed in the early universe thanks to a phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Hassan Firouzjahi , Antonio Riotto

Parikh-Wilczek tunnelling framework, which treats Hawking radiation as a tunnelling process, is investigated again. As the first order correction, the log-corrected entropy-area relation naturally emerges in the tunnelling picture if we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jingyi Zhang

We investigate the wave optics in the Schwarzschild spacetime. Applying the standard formalism of wave scattering problems, the Green function represented by the sum over the partial waves is evaluated using the Poisson sum formula. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Yasusada Nambu , Sousuke Noda

We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e. $O(G^4)$ and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributions corresponding to the tail effect in general relativity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We calculate the energy and angular momentum fluxes across the event horizon of a tidally deformed, rapidly rotating black hole to next-to-leading order in the curvature of the external spacetime. These are expressed in terms of tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-21 Katerina Chatziioannou , Eric Poisson , Nicolas Yunes

We propose an approach for the calculation of self-forces, energy fluxes and waveforms arising from moving point charges in curved spacetimes. As opposed to mode-sum schemes that regularize the self-force derived from the singular retarded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Ian Vega , Steven Detweiler

We present a study of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) generalization of stochastic inflation in a model-independent single-field framework and its impact on primordial black hole (PBH) formation. We show how the Langevin equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Pankaj Padiyar , M. Sami

We formulate a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a black hole of mass $M$, where $\mu\ll M$. At first order in $\mu$, the geometry is perturbed and the motion of the…

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

Accurate and efficient modeling of the dynamics of binary black holes (BBHs) is crucial to their detection through gravitational waves (GWs), with LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, and LISA in the future. Solving the dynamics of a BBH system with arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Sashwat Tanay , Leo C. Stein , Gihyuk Cho

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

The first- and second-order dissipative self force and the first order conservative self force are applied together with spin-orbit coupling to the quasi-circular motion of a test mass in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

A small deformation controlled by four free parameters to the Schwarzschild metric could be referred to a nonspinning black hole solution in alternative theories of gravity. Because such a non-Schwarzschild metric can be changed into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Hongxing Zhang , Naying Zhou , Wenfang Liu , Xin Wu

We develop a black hole response formulation of worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) adapted to the gravitational self-force expansion. Integrating out the worldline and graviton fluctuations yields connected graviton response functions:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Lara Bohnenblust , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Jitze Hoogeveen , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Jan Plefka

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

Considering the self force and radiation due to a small body in orbit (especially aperiodic) around a black hole, this paper defines a decomposition of the source into a sum over the shape preserving periodic motions of extended objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-02 Barak Kol