HET Seminar | Radu Roiban, Penn State | “Perspectives on the Generally-Relativistic Two-Body Problem from Double Copy & EFT”| Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Date
Nov 25, 2019, 2:30 pm2:30 pm
Location
Bloomberg Lecture Hall

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While the flat space two-body problem is integrable, the generally-relativistic one is not starting at the next-to-leading order.
In the appropriate classical limit, scattering amplitude-based techniques can yield the classical interaction of massive bodies to all orders in their velocities and to fixed order in the expansion in Newton's constant, that is a fixed order in the post-Minkowskian (relativistic weak-field) expansion.
In this talk we review an amplitudes-based framework for such calculations and the derivation of the third order in the post-Minkowskian  expansion for the conservative Hamiltonian of a compact spinless binary system. We also describe the scattering angle at this order as well as a first comparison with numerical GR.