High-order comparisons between post-Newtonian and perturbative self forces
arXiv:1507.01720
Abstract
Recent numerical and analytic computations based on the self-force (SF) formalism in general relativity showed that half-integral post-Newtonian (PN) terms, i.e. terms involving odd powers of 1/c, arise in the redshift factor of small mass-ratio black-hole binaries on exact circular orbits. Although those contributions might seem puzzling at first sight for conservative systems that are invariant under time-reversal, they are in fact associated with the so-called non-linear tail-of-tail effect. We shall describe here how the next-to-next-to-leading order contributions beyond the first half-integral 5.5PN conservative effect (i.e. up to order 7.5PN included) have been obtained by means of the standard PN formalism applied to binary systems of point-like objects. The resulting redshift factor in the small mass-ratio limit fully agrees with that of the SF approach.
arXiv comment6 pages; contribution to the proceedings of the 50th Rencontres de Moriond, "Gravitation: 100 years after GR"
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