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The multipolar-post-Minkowskian approach to gravitational radiation is applied to the problem of the generation of waves by the compact binary inspiral. We investigate specifically the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation in the total…

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Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

We derive a systematic Lagrangian approach for quantum gravity in the super-Planckian limit where $s\gg M_{pl}^2\gg t$. The action can be used to calculate to arbitrary accuracy in the quantum and classical expansion parameters $\alpha_Q=…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Ira Z. Rothstein , Michael Saavedra

In [arXiv:1906.10100], the authors argued that the Newman-Janis algorithm on the space of classical solutions in general relativity and electromagnetism could be used in the space of scattering amplitudes to map an amplitude with external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Samim Akhtar , Arkajyoti Manna , Akavoor Manu

We derive the limiting form of graviton radiation in gravitational scattering at transplanckian energies ($E\gg M_P$) and small deflection angles. We show that --- owing to the graviton's spin 2 --- such limiting form unifies the soft- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-24 Marcello Ciafaloni , Dimitri Colferai , Francesco Coradeschi , Gabriele Veneziano

We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required classical limits are naturally described by coherent states of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , David A. Kosower , Donal O'Connell

We apply the classical double copy to the calculation of self-energy of composite systems with multipolar coupling to gravitational field, obtaining next-to-leading order results in the gravitational coupling $G_N$ by generalizing color to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

We compute the classical tree-level five-point amplitude for the two-to-two scattering of spinning celestial objects with the emission of a graviton. Using this five-point amplitude, we then turn to the computation of the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

The leading long-distance quantum correction to the Newtonian potential for heavy spinless particles is computed in quantum gravity. The potential is obtained directly from the sum of all graviton exchange diagrams contributing to lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 H. W. Hamber , S. Liu

We study the compatibility of recursive techniques with the classical limit of scattering amplitudes through the construction of the classical Compton amplitude for general spinning compact objects. This is done using BCFW recursion on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Kays Haddad

We revisit the calculation of classical observables from causal response functions, following up on recent work by Caron-Huot at al. [JHEP 01 (2024) 139]. We derive a formula to compute asymptotic in-in observables from a particular soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Shovon Biswas , Julio Parra-Martinez

In this paper we compute the spin-dependent terms of the gravitational potential for general spinning bodies at the leading Newton's constant $G$ and to all orders in spin. We utilize the on-shell approach, which extracts the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim

The rate of gravitational-wave energy loss from inspiralling binary systems of compact objects of arbitrary mass is derived through second post-Newtonian (2PN) order $O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$ beyond the quadrupole approximation. The result has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Using modern amplitude techniques we compute the leading classical and quantum corrections to the classical gravitational potential between two massive scalars induced by adding an $R^3$ term to Einstein gravity. We then study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

The article presents the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting two-point-mass systems up to the eight order in the inverse power of the velocity of light, i.e.\ 4th post-Newtonian (4PN) order, and up to quadratic order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Jaranowski , Gerhard Schäfer

We consider the relativistic scattering of unequal-mass scalar particles through graviton exchange in the small-angle high-energy regime. We show the self-consistency of expansion around the eikonal limit and compute the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Ratindranath Akhoury , Ryo Saotome , George Sterman

The linear-order effects of radiation-reaction on the classical scattering of two point masses, in General Relativity, are derived by a variation-of-constants method. Explicit expressions for the radiation-reaction contributions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We consider four-dimensional massive gravity with the Fierz-Pauli mass term. The analysis of the scalar sector has revealed recently that this theory becomes strongly coupled above the energy scale \Lambda = (M_{Pl}^2 m^4)^{1/5} where m is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aurele Aubert

We study gravitational shock waves using scattering amplitude techniques. After first reviewing the derivation in General Relativity as an ultrarelativistic boost of a Schwarzschild solution, we provide an alternative derivation by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-03 Andrea Cristofoli

A recently introduced approach to the gravitational dynamics of binary systems involves intricate integrals, linked to nonlocal-in-time interactions arising at the 5-loop level of classical gravitational scattering. We complete the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Stefano Laporta , Pierpaolo Mastrolia