All-order structure of static gravitational interactions and the seventh post-Newtonian potential

Abstract

We present a closed formula for the computation of static post-Newtonian corrections to the two-body gravitational dynamics at any odd order, assuming the lower-order results are known. The formula is derived within a correlation function framework and exploits the ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetry of the static sector, leading to a novel theoretical interpretation of the factorization theorem. As an application, we compute the gravitational interaction of two compact coalescing objects at the seventh post-Newtonian order in the static limit, which receives contributions from seven-loop graphs at order $\mathcal{O}(G_N^8{v}^0)$, and find complete agreement with the results obtained using the diagrammatic approach of the factorization theorem.