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arxiv: 1401.4548 · v2 · pith:Q4MLUAI5new · submitted 2014-01-18 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE· hep-th· math-ph· math.MP

Nonlocal-in-time action for the fourth post-Newtonian conservative dynamics of two-body systems

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keywords actionconservativedynamicsinteractionnonlocal-in-timephyspost-newtoniansystems
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We complete the analytical determination, at the 4th post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation, of the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting two-point-mass systems. This completion is obtained by resolving the infra-red ambiguity which had blocked a previous 4PN calculation [P.Jaranowski and G.Sch\"afer, Phys. Rev. D 87, 081503(R) (2013)] by taking into account the 4PN breakdown of the usual near-zone expansion due to infinite-range tail-transported temporal correlations found long ago [L.Blanchet and T.Damour, Phys. Rev. D 37, 1410 (1988)]. This leads to a Poincar\'e-invariant 4PN-accurate effective action for two masses, which mixes instantaneous interaction terms (described by a usual Hamiltonian) with a (time-symmetric) nonlocal-in-time interaction.

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