Elementary development of the gravitational self-force

DOI10.1007/978-90-481-3015-3_10zbMATH Open1213.83037arXiv0908.4363OpenAlexW1830374683MaRDI QIDQ2999503FDOQ2999503

Authors: Steven Detweiler 

Publication date: 13 May 2011

Published in: Mass and Motion in General Relativity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The gravitational field of a particle of small mass $mu$ moving through curved spacetime, with metric $g_{ab}$, is naturally and easily decomposed into two parts each of which satisfies the perturbed Einstein equations through $O(mu)$. One part is an inhomogeneous field $h_{ab}^S$ which, near the particle, looks like the Coulomb $mu/r$ field with tidal distortion from the local Riemann tensor. This singular field is defined in a neighborhood of the small particle and does not depend upon boundary conditions or upon the behavior of the source in either the past or the future. The other part is a homogeneous field $h_{ab}^R$. In a perturbative analysis, the motion of the particle is then best described as being a geodesic in the metric $g_{ab}+h_{ab}^R$. This geodesic motion includes all of the effects which might be called radiation reaction and conservative effects as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4363

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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