On the foundations of general relativistic celestial mechanics

DOI10.1142/S0217751X17300228zbMATH Open1375.70003arXiv1707.04424WikidataQ57514504 ScholiaQ57514504MaRDI QIDQ4597308FDOQ4597308

Authors: Emmanuele Battista, Simone Dell'Agnello, Giampiero Esposito 

Publication date: 12 December 2017

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

Abstract: Towards the end of nineteenth century, Celestial Mechanics provided the most powerful tools to test Newtonian gravity in the solar system, and led also to the discovery of chaos in modern science. Nowadays, in light of general relativity, Celestial Mechanics leads to a new perspective on the motion of satellites and planets. The reader is here introduced to the modern formulation of the problem of motion, following what the leaders in the field have been teaching since the nineties. In particular, the use of a global chart for the overall dynamics of N bodies and N local charts describing the internal dynamics of each body. The next logical step studies in detail how to split the N-body problem into two sub-problems concerning the internal and external dynamics, how to achieve the effacement properties that would allow a decoupling of the two sub-problems, how to define external-potential-effacing coordinates and how to generalize the Newtonian multipole and tidal moments. The review paper ends with an assessment of the nonlocal equations of motion obtained within such a framework, a description of the modifications induced by general relativity of the theoretical analysis of the Newtonian three-body problem, and a mention of the potentialities of the analysis of solar-system metric data carried out with the Planetary Ephemeris Program.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04424

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zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemmultipole expansion: ephemeris

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-02) (n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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