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A point-like object moving in a background black hole spacetime experiences a gravitational self-force which can be expressed as a local function of the object's instantaneous position and velocity, to linear order in the mass ratio. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Justin Vines , Éanna É. Flanagan

Using equations of motion accurate to the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order (O(v/c)^6 beyond Newtonian gravity), we derive expressions for the total energy E and angular momentum J of the orbits of compact binary systems (black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Thierry Mora , Clifford M. Will

We analytically compute, through the six-and-a-half post-Newtonian order, the second-order-in-eccentricity piece of the Detweiler-Barack-Sago gauge-invariant redshift function for a small mass in eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We compute the complete potential-graviton contributions to the conservative radial action and scattering angle for two non-spinning bodies in general relativity, accurate through fifth order in Newton's constant and including second-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Sid Smith , Mao Zeng

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 briefly discuss a method to construct a global, analytic, approximate spacetime for precessing, spinning binary black holes. The spacetime construction is broken into three parts: the inner zones are the spacetimes close to each black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Hiroyuki Nakano , Brennan Ireland , Manuela Campanelli , Eric J. West

Exploiting simple yet remarkable properties of relativistic gravitational scattering, we use first-order self-force (linear-in-mass-ratio) results to obtain arbitrary-mass-ratio results for the complete third-subleading post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We present the gravitational action and Hamiltonian for a spatially bounded region of an eternal black hole. The Hamiltonian is of the general form $H=H_{+} - H_{-}$, where $H_{+}$ and $H_{-}$ are respectively the Hamiltonians for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Valeri Frolov , Erik A. Martinez

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two black holes carry the signature of the strong field dynamics of binary black holes. In this work we have used numerical relativity simulations and post-Newtonian theory to investigate this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Ssohrab Borhanian , K. G. Arun , Harald P. Pfeiffer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We obtain the equations of motion for compact binary systems (black holes or neutron stars) in an alternative theory of gravity known as Einstein-AEther theory, which supplements the standard spacetime metric with a timelike four-vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Fatemeh Taherasghari , Clifford M. Will

We employ one-loop scattering amplitudes in Einstein-Maxwell theory to compute the classical Hamiltonian of a binary system of two charged, non-spinning compact objects. The Hamiltonian is valid to all orders in velocity and up to second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Allan Alonzo-Artiles , Manfred Kraus

The dynamics of precessing binary black holes (BBHs) in the post-Newtonian regime has a strong timescale hierarchy: the orbital timescale is very short compared to the spin-precession timescale which, in turn, is much shorter than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 Davide Gerosa , Michael Kesden , Ulrich Sperhake , Emanuele Berti , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We revisit the amplitude-based derivation of gravitational waveform for the scattering of two scalar black holes at subleading post-Minkowskian (PM) order. We take an eikonal-inspired approach to the two-massive-particle cut needed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

The frequency-domain waveform emitted by a two-body scattering process is computed in the extreme-mass-ratio limit through the fifth post-Minkowskian (PM) order (i.e., $O(G^5)$) and the fractional sixth post-Newtonian (PN) order. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Andrea Geralico

A throughout investigation is made of the exact black hole solution in five-dimensional warped conformal dilaton gravity, found in an earlier investigation. The singularities of the dynamical black hole spacetime are determined by the zeros…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Reinoud Jan Slagter

We discuss the source of the apparent ambiguities arising in the calculation of the dynamics of binary black holes within the Post-Newtonian framework. Divergences appear in both the near and far zone calculations, and may be of either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-09 Rafael A. Porto , Ira Z. Rothstein

I modify the quasilocal energy formalism of Brown and York into a purely Hamiltonian form. As part of the reformulation, I remove their restriction that the time evolution of the boundary of the spacetime be orthogonal to the leaves of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan S. Booth

In this paper we study the two-body gravitational scattering of massive scalars with different masses in general spacetime dimensions. We focus on the Regge limit (eikonal regime) of the resulting scattering amplitudes and discuss how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Arnau Koemans Collado , Paolo Di Vecchia , Rodolfo Russo

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

We propose a new formula for the entropy of a dynamical black hole$-$valid to leading order for perturbations off of a stationary black hole background$-$in an arbitrary classical diffeomorphism covariant Lagrangian theory of gravity in $n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald , Victor G. Zhang