Hamiltonian formulation of the conservative self-force dynamics in the Kerr geometry

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA7342zbMATH Open1367.83002arXiv1612.02504OpenAlexW3100211089MaRDI QIDQ5283557FDOQ5283557

Authors: Ryuichi Fujita, Soichiro Isoyama, Alexandre Le Tiec, Hiroyuki Nakano, Norichika Sago, Takahiro Tanaka 

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Abstract: We formulate a Hamiltonian description of the orbital motion of a point particle in Kerr spacetime for generic (eccentric, inclined) orbits, which accounts for the effects of the conservative part of the gravitational self-force. This formulation relies on a description of the particle's motion as geodesic in a certain smooth effective spacetime, in terms of (generalized) action-angle variables. Clarifying the role played by the gauge freedom in the Hamiltonian dynamics, we extract the gauge-invariant information contained in the conservative self-force. We also propose a possible gauge choice for which the orbital dynamics can be described by an effective Hamiltonian, written solely in terms of the action variables. As an application of our Hamiltonian formulation in this gauge, we derive the conservative self-force correction to the orbital frequencies of Kerr innermost stable spherical (inclined or circular) orbits. This gauge choice also allows us to establish a "first law of mechanics" for black-hole-particle binary systems, at leading order beyond the test-mass approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02504

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian formulationpoint particleKerr geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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