Effective one-body approach to the relativistic two-body problem

Details Effective one-body approach to the relativistic two-body problem Effective one-body approach to the relativistic two-body problem

2000-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0010104v3

Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 104007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, latex, no figures. Minor amendments, comments, new references and acknowledgments added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.63.104007

The relativistic 2-body problem, much like the non-relativistic one, is reduced to describing the motion of an effective particle in an external field. The concept of a relativistic reduced mass and effective particle energy introduced some 30 years ago to compute relativistic corrections to the Balmer formula in quantum electrodynamics, is shown to work equally well for classical electromagnetic and gravitational interaction. The results for the gravitational 2-body problem have more than academic interest since they apply to the study of binary pulsars that provide precision tests for general relativity. They are compared with recent results derived by other methods.

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