Conservation laws for systems of extended bodies in the first post-Newtonian approximation.

Details Conservation laws for systems of extended bodies in the first post-Newtonian approximation. Conservation laws for systems of extended bodies in the first post-Newtonian approximation.

1995-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9503041v1

Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 4455-4461

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

18 pages, Revtex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.4455

The general form of the global conservation laws for $N$-body systems in the first post-Newtonian approximation of general relativity is considered. Our approach applies to the motion of an isolated system of $N$ arbitrarily composed and shaped, weakly self-gravitating, rotating, deformable bodies and uses a framework recently introduced by Damour, Soffel and Xu (DSX). We succeed in showing that seven of the first integrals of the system (total mass-energy, total dipole mass moment and total linear momentum) can be broken up into a sum of contributions which can be entirely expressed in terms of the basic quantities entering the DSX framework: namely, the relativistic individual multipole moments of the bodies, the relativistic tidal moments experienced by each body, and the positions and orientations with respect to the global coordinate system of the local reference frames attached to each body. On the other hand, the total angular momentum of the system does not seem to be expressible in such a form due to the unavoidable presence of irreducible nonlinear gravitational effects.

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