The n-body problem in General Relativity up to the second post-Newtonian order from perturbative field theory

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2008-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/0812.0012v2

Phys.Rev.D79:044031,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

39 pages. The Mathematica code used in this paper can be found at http://www.stargazing.net/yizen/PN.html Version 2: Slight re

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.044031

Motivated by experimental probes of general relativity, we adopt methods from perturbative (quantum) field theory to compute, up to certain integrals, the effective lagrangian for its n-body problem. Perturbation theory is performed about a background Minkowski spacetime to O[(v/c)^4] beyond Newtonian gravity, where v is the typical speed of these n particles in their center of energy frame. For the specific case of the 2 body problem, the major efforts underway to measure gravitational waves produced by in-spiraling compact astrophysical binaries require their gravitational interactions to be computed beyond the currently known O[(v/c)^7]. We argue that such higher order post-Newtonian calculations must be automated for these field theoretic methods to be applied successfully to achieve this goal. In view of this, we outline an algorithm that would in principle generate the relevant Feynman diagrams to an arbitrary order in v/c and take steps to develop the necessary software. The Feynman diagrams contributing to the n-body effective action at O[(v/c)^6] beyond Newton are derived.

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