A matched expansion approach to practical self-force calculations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/15/010MaRDI QIDQ5693105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan G. Wiseman, Warren G. Anderson

Publication date 28 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506136

zbMATH Keywords

curved space-timegravitational self-force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We discuss a practical method to compute the self-force on a particle moving through a curved spacetime. This method involves two expansions to calculate the self-force, one arising from the particle's immediate past and the other from the more distant past. The expansion in the immediate past is a covariant Taylor series and can be carried out for all geometries. The more distant expansion is a mode sum, and may be carried out in those cases where the wave equation for the field mediating the self-force admits a mode expansion of the solution. In particular, this method can be used to calculate the gravitational self-force for a particle of mass mu orbiting a black hole of mass M to order mu^2, provided mu/M << 1. We discuss how to use these two expansions to construct a full self-force, and in particular investigate criteria for matching the two expansions. As with all methods of computing self-forces for particles moving in black hole spacetimes, one encounters considerable technical difficulty in applying this method; nevertheless, it appears that the convergence of each series is good enough that a practical implementation may be plausible.

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