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Publications (5)

gr-qc2013

Gravitational self-force from radiation-gauge metric perturbations

Adam Pound, Cesar Merlin, Leor Barack

Calculations of the gravitational self-force (GSF) in curved spacetime require as input the metric perturbation in a sufficiently regular gauge. A basic challenge in the program to…

gr-qc2016

Completion of metric reconstruction for a particle orbiting a Kerr black hole

Cesar Merlin, Amos Ori, Leor Barack +2

Vacuum perturbations of the Kerr metric can be reconstructed from the corresponding perturbation in either of the two Weyl scalars or , using a procedure described by…

gr-qc2015

Self-force from reconstructed metric perturbations: numerical implementation in Schwarzschild spacetime

Cesar Merlin, Abhay G. Shah

We present a first numerical implementation of a new scheme by Pound et al. that enables the calculation of the gravitational self-force in Kerr spacetime from a reconstructed metr…

gr-qc2018

Lorentzian surfaces and the curvature of the Schmidt metric

Yafet Sanchez Sanchez, Cesar Merlin, Ricardo Reynoso Fuentes

The b-boundary is a mathematical tool used to attach a topological boundary to incomplete Lorentzian manifolds using a Riemaniann metric called the Schmidt metric on the frame bund…

gr-qc2011

The gravitational light shift and the Sachs-Wolfe effect

Cesar Merlin, Marcelo Salgado

Using a 3+1 decomposition of spacetime, we derive a new formula to compute the gravitational light shifts as measured by two observers which are normal to the spacelike hypersurfac…