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A Stationary Approximation to the Spacetime of a Compact Object Binary
John T. Whelan
The gravitational-radiation-induced inspiral of a binary system of compact objects is considered. A scheme is described to model the regime in which the gravitational interaction i…
Quasi-Stationary Binary Inspiral: Project Overview
John T. Whelan
I describe the current status of a collaboration with J.D. Romano, R.H. Price, and W. Krivan to model the geometry of and gravitational radiation emitted by a binary system of comp…
Skeletonizations of Phase Space Paths
John T. Whelan
Construction of skeletonized path integrals for a particle moving on a curved spatial manifold is considered. As shown by DeWitt, Kuchar and others, while the skeletonized configur…
Modelling the Decoherence of Spacetime (abridged)
John T. Whelan
The question of whether unobserved short-wavelength modes of the gravitational field can induce decoherence in the long-wavelength modes (``the decoherence of spacetime'') is addre…