Self-force driven motion in curved spacetime
2014 ◽
Vol 11
(08)
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pp. 1450072
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Keyword(s):
The Self
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We adopt the Dirac–Detweiler–Whiting radiative and regular effective field in curved spacetime. Thereby, we derive straightforwardly the first order perturbative correction to the geodesic of the background in a covariant form, for the extreme mass ratio two-body problem. The correction contains the self-force contribution and a background metric-dependent term.