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It is shown that Schwarzschild black hole and de Sitter solutions exist as exact solutions of a recently proposed relativistic covariant formulation of (power-counting) renormalizable gravity with a fluid. The formulation without a fluid is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 G. Cognola , E. Elizalde , L. Sebastiani , S. Zerbini

Much of the success of gravitational-wave astronomy rests on perturbation theory. Historically, perturbative analysis of gravitational-wave sources has largely focused on post-Newtonian theory. However, strong-field perturbation theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

We extend the analytical determination of the main radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies beyond the 4th post-Newtonian approximation recently obtained by us. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

We present an algorithm for calculating the metric perturbations and gravitational self-force for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) with eccentric orbits. The massive black hole is taken to be Schwarzschild and metric perturbations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Thomas Osburn , Erik Forseth , Charles Evans , Seth Hopper

We study the relativistic orbit of binary black holes in systems with small mass ratio. The trajectory of the smaller object (another black hole or a neutron star), represented as a particle, is determined by the geodesic equation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. O. Lousto

In this paper we study the vacuum quantum fluctuations of the stationary modes of an uncharged scalar field with mass $m$ around a Schwarzschild black hole with mass $M$, at zero and non-zero temperatures. The procedure consists of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 C. R. Muniz , M. O. Tahim , M. S. Cunha , H. S. Vieira

The gravitational field of a particle of small mass \mu moving through curved spacetime is naturally decomposed into two parts each of which satisfies the perturbed Einstein equations through O(\mu). One part is an inhomogeneous field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Bernard F. Whiting

The motion of a small compact object (SCO) in a background spacetime is investigated further in a class of model nonlinear scalar field theories having a perturbative structure analogous to the General Relativistic description of extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Chad R. Galley

We investigate the use of the Gegenbauer procedure for time-domain reconstruction in frequency-domain calculations of the self-force on a particle orbiting a black hole. The conventional technique relies on the so-called method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack , Oliver Long

This paper presents the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on a small compact object on an eccentric equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole to first order in the mass-ratio. That is the pointwise correction to the object's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Maarten van de Meent

The self-force describes the effect of a particle's own gravitational field on its motion. While the motion is geodesic in the test-mass limit, it is accelerated to first order in the particle's mass. In this contribution I review the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Eric Poisson

Comparing the corrections to Kepler's law with orbital evolution under a self force, we extract the finite, already regularized part of the latter in a specific gauge. We apply this method to a quasi-circular orbit around a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lior M. Burko

We review a recent theoretical progress in the so-called self-force problem of a general relativistic two-body system. Although a two-body system in Newtonian gravity is a very simple problem, some fundamental issues are involved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasushi Mino

We derive a closed-form solution for the Green's function for the wave equation of a static (with respect to an undragged, static observer at infinity) scalar charge in the Kerr space-time. We employ our solution to obtain an analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Adrian C. Ottewill , Peter Taylor

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of regular black holes, driven by the search for singularity-free geometries. This research has revealed intriguing similarities between the regularization mechanisms used in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 L. C. N. Santos

We {\it analytically} compute, to the eight-and-a-half post-Newtonian order, and to linear order in the mass ratio, the radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

Building on substantial foundational progress in understanding the effect of a small body's self-field on its own motion, the past 15 years has seen the emergence of several strategies for explicitly computing self-field corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Barry Wardell

Continuing our analytic computation of the first-order self-force contribution to the "geodetic" spin precession frequency of a small spinning body orbiting a large (non-spinning) body we provide the exact expressions of the tenth and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

We consider a metric-affine formulation of Chern-Simons modified gravity in 2 + 1 dimensions. The theory is built requiring projective invariance, and the structure of the equations is analyzed using a decomposition in terms of scalar,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Flavio Bombacigno , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Emanuele Orazi , Paulo J. Porfírio

We continue a previous work on the comparison between the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation and the gravitational self-force (SF) analysis of circular orbits in a Schwarzschild background. We show that the numerical SF data contain physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting