Published November 15, 2008
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Journal article
Gravitational radiation in d>4 from effective field theory
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677-1848 (United States)
- 2. CENTRA, Department de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Avenue Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa (Portugal)
- 3. Department de Fisica e Centro de Fisica do Porto, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169 - 007 Porto (Portugal)
- 4. Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Avenue Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
- 5. Center for Particle Theory and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)
Description
Some years ago, a new powerful technique, known as the classical effective field theory, was proposed to describe classical phenomena in gravitational systems. Here we show how this approach can be useful to investigate theoretically important issues, such as gravitational radiation in any spacetime dimension. In particular, we derive for the first time the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman Lagrangian and we compute Einstein's quadrupole formula for any number of flat spacetime dimensions.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.105010;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0807.2261v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 78
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 105010-105010.20
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41002270
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; QUADRUPOLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MULTIPOLES; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society