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The classical soft graviton theorem expresses the behavior of low-frequency gravitational radiation. In this paper, simplistic proofs of the classical soft graviton theorem for massless and massive scalar fields on $4$-D Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Raikhik Das

We explicitly demonstrate that the known solutions for expanding impulsive spherical gravitational waves that have been obtained by a "cut and paste" method may be considered to be impulsive limits of the Robinson-Trautman vacuum type N…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Podolsky , J. B. Griffiths

We describe an efficient method for extracting the parts of $D$-dimensional loop integrals that are needed to derive observables in classical general relativity from scattering amplitudes. Our approach simplifies the soft-region method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We compare recent one-loop-level, scattering-amplitude-based, computations of the classical part of the gravitational bremsstrahlung waveform to the frequency-domain version of the corresponding Multipolar-Post-Minkowskian waveform result.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and total gravitational-wave energy flux of non-spinning compact binary systems to the 4PN (fourth post-Newtonian) order beyond the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Quentin Henry , François Larrouturou , David Trestini

We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We present a systematic diagrammatic investigation of the classical limit of observables computed from scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory through the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism, motivated by the study of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Zeno Capatti , Mao Zeng

In 1967 Zeldovich expressed the cosmological constant lambda in terms of G, m and h, the gravitational constant, the mass of a fundamental particle and Plancks constant. In 1972 Weinberg expressed m in terms of h, G, the speed of light c…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

We calculate the spin-orbit corrections to the loss of angular momentum in a two-body scattering at third Post-Minkowskian order, $\mathcal O(G^3)$, from scattering amplitudes using the eikonal operator. These results include effects linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Carlo Heissenberg

This study toward quantum gravity (QG) introduces an SU(N) gauge theory with the \Theta vacuum term as a trial theory. Newton gravitation constant G_N is realized as the effective coupling constant for a massive graviton, G_N /\sqrt{2} =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Heui-Seol Roh

We compute the (displacement) gravitational wave memory due to a quasicircular inspiral of two black holes using a variety of perturbative techniques. Within post-Newtonian theory, we extend previous results for non-spinning binaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Kevin Cunningham , Chris Kavanagh , Adam Pound , David Trestini , Niels Warburton , Jakob Neef

We compute the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system with a spinning black hole through $\mathcal{O}(G^3)$ to all orders in velocity, including linear and quadratic spin terms. To obtain our results we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Guanda Lin , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We compute the gravitational radiation-reaction force on a compact binary source at the fourth-and-a-half post-Newtonian (4.5PN) order of general relativity, i.e., 2PN order beyond the leading 2.5PN radiation reaction. The calculation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , David Trestini

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

The mere principle of relativity and Lorentz transformations for the mass current predict, in close analogy to electromagnetism, the existence of gravitomagnetic fields. With the reasonable assumption of the non existence of a…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 P. Christillin , L. Barattini

Using the gravitational potential and source multipole moments bilinear in the spins, first computed to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion within the effective field theory (EFT) framework, we complete here the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Gihyuk Cho , Brian Pardo , Rafael A. Porto

In Einstein's general relativity, gravity is mediated by a massless spin-2 metric field, and its extension to include a mass for the graviton has profound implication for gravitation and cosmology. In 2002, Finn and Sutton used the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 Xueli Miao , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

We study in a Brill-Hartle type of approximation the back reaction of a superposition of linear gravitational waves on the mean gravitational field up to second order in the wave amplitudes. The background field is taken as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Dautcourt

We utilize generalized unitarity and recursion relations combined with effective field theory(EFT) techniques to compute spin dependent interaction terms for inspiralling binary systems in the post newtonian(PN) approximation. Using these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Varun Vaidya