Covariant formulation of the post-1-Newtonian approximation to General Relativity

Details Covariant formulation of the post-1-Newtonian approximation to General Relativity Covariant formulation of the post-1-Newtonian approximation to General Relativity

2011-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/1101.0588v2

Phys.Rev.D84:044038,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

14 pages, no figures, minor corrections, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.044038

We derive a coordinate-independent formulation of the post-1-Newtonian approximation to general relativity. This formulation is a generalization of the Newton-Cartan geometric formulation of Newtonian gravity. It involves several fields and a connection, but no spacetime metric at the fundamental level. We show that the usual coordinate-dependent equations of post-Newtonian gravity are recovered when one specializes to asymptotically flat spacetimes and to appropriate classes of coordinates.

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