Symplectic structure of post-Newtonian Hamiltonian for spinning compact binaries

Details Symplectic structure of post-Newtonian Hamiltonian for spinning compact binaries Symplectic structure of post-Newtonian Hamiltonian for spinning compact binaries

2010-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/1004.4549v1

Phys.Rev.D81:084045,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

7 pages, no fig.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084045

The phase space of a Hamiltonian system is symplectic. However, the post-Newtonian Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries in existing publications does not have this property, when position, momentum and spin variables $[X, P, S_1, S_2]$ compose its phase space. This may give a convenient application of perturbation theory to the derivation of the post-Newtonian formulation, but also makes classic theories of a symplectic Hamiltonian system be a serious obstacle in application, especially in diagnosing integrability and nonintegrability from a dynamical system theory perspective. To completely understand the dynamical characteristic of the integrability or nonintegrability for the binary system, we construct a set of conjugate spin variables and reexpress the spin Hamiltonian part so as to make the complete Hamiltonian formulation symplectic. As a result, it is directly shown with the least number of independent isolating integrals that a conservative Hamiltonian compact binary system with both one spin and the pure orbital part to any post-Newtonian order is typically integrable and not chaotic. And conservative binary system consisting of two spins restricted to the leading order spin-orbit interaction and the pure orbital part at all post-Newtonian orders is also integrable, independently on the mass ratio. For all other various spinning cases, the onset of chaos is possible.

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