Conservative Spin Magnitude Change in Orbital Evolution in General Relativity

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Main Authors: Alaverdian, Mark, Bern, Zvi, Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios, Luna, Andres, Roiban, Radu, Scheopner, Trevor, Teng, Fei
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author Alaverdian, Mark
Bern, Zvi
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios
Luna, Andres
Roiban, Radu
Scheopner, Trevor
Teng, Fei
author_facet Alaverdian, Mark
Bern, Zvi
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios
Luna, Andres
Roiban, Radu
Scheopner, Trevor
Teng, Fei
contents We show that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. The impulse, spin kick, and leading-order waveforms exhibit such a nontrivial dependence. A signal of this additional structure is the change in the magnitude of the spin vector under conservative Hamiltonian evolution, similar to our previous studies in electrodynamics. These additional degrees of freedom describe dynamical mass multipoles of compact objects and decouple for black holes. We also show that the conservative impulse, spin kick and change of the additional degrees of freedom are encoded in the eikonal phase.
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spellingShingle Conservative Spin Magnitude Change in Orbital Evolution in General Relativity
Alaverdian, Mark
Bern, Zvi
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios
Luna, Andres
Roiban, Radu
Scheopner, Trevor
Teng, Fei
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We show that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. The impulse, spin kick, and leading-order waveforms exhibit such a nontrivial dependence. A signal of this additional structure is the change in the magnitude of the spin vector under conservative Hamiltonian evolution, similar to our previous studies in electrodynamics. These additional degrees of freedom describe dynamical mass multipoles of compact objects and decouple for black holes. We also show that the conservative impulse, spin kick and change of the additional degrees of freedom are encoded in the eikonal phase.
title Conservative Spin Magnitude Change in Orbital Evolution in General Relativity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10928