Spin and energy evolution equations for a wide class of extended bodies

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/007zbMATH Open1087.83038arXivgr-qc/0405058OpenAlexW3102107780MaRDI QIDQ3376142FDOQ3376142

Authors: Étienne Racine 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a surface integral derivation of the leading-order evolution equations for the spin and energy of a relativistic body interacting with other bodies in the post-Newtonian expansion scheme. The bodies can be arbitrarily shaped and can be strongly self-gravitating. The effects of all mass and current multipoles are taken into account. As part of the computation one of the 2PN potentials parametrizing the metric is obtained. The formulae obtained here for spin and energy evolution coincide with those obtained by Damour, Soffel and Xu for the case of weakly self-gravitating bodies. By combining an Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman-type surface integral approach with multipolar expansions we extend the domain of validity of these evolution equations to a wide class of strongly self-gravitating bodies. This paper completes in a self-contained way a previous work by Racine and Flanagan on translational equations of motion for compact objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405058

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

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• Mechanics of extended masses in general relativity
• Dynamics of extended bodies with spin-induced quadrupole in Kerr spacetime: generic orbits

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