New perturbative method for solving the gravitational N-body problem in the general theory of relativity

DOI10.1142/S021827181550039XzbMATH Open1319.70010arXiv1304.8122OpenAlexW3106402797WikidataQ125385597 ScholiaQ125385597MaRDI QIDQ2943434FDOQ2943434

Authors: Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth 

Publication date: 3 September 2015

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new approach to describe the dynamics of an isolated, gravitationally bound astronomical $N$-body system in the weak field and slow-motion approximation of the general theory of relativity. Celestial bodies are described using an arbitrary energy-momentum tensor and assumed to possess any number of internal multipole moments. The solution of the gravitational field equations in any reference frame is presented as a sum of three terms: i) the inertial flat spacetime in that frame, ii) unperturbed solutions for each body in the system that is covariantly transformed to the coordinates of this frame, and iii) the gravitational interaction term. We use the harmonic gauge conditions that allow reconstruction of a significant part of the structure of the post-Galilean coordinate transformation functions relating global coordinates of the inertial reference frame to the local coordinates of the non-inertial frame associated with a particular body. The remaining parts of these functions are determined from dynamical conditions, obtained by constructing the relativistic proper reference frame associated with a particular body. In this frame, the effect of external forces acting on the body is balanced by the fictitious frame-reaction force that is needed to keep the body at rest with respect to the frame, conserving its relativistic three-momentum. The resulting post-Galilean coordinate transformations have an approximate group structure that extends the Poincar'e group of global transformations to the case of accelerating observers in a gravitational field of $N$-body system. We present and discuss the structure of the metric tensors corresponding to the reference frames involved, the rules for transforming relativistic gravitational potentials, the coordinate transformations between frames and the resulting relativistic equations of motion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.8122

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zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problempost-Newtonian approximationrelativistic reference framesgeneral theory of relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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