2007/11/30 by Adrian C. Ottewill, Barry Wardell · 30 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geodesic #Geometry #Gravitation #Gravitational wave #Massless particle #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Space (punctuation) #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.104002
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 77(10) (American Physical Society) · Final Phys. Rev. D version. 24 pages, revtex4. Minor typos corrected
arxiv created 2008/05/05 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider a scalar charge travelling in a curved background space-time. We calculate the quasilocal contribution to the scalar self-force experienced by such a particle following a geodesic in a general space-time. We also show that if we assume a massless field and a vacuum background space-time, the expression for the self-force simplifies significantly. We consider some specific cases whose gravitational analogs are of immediate physical interest for the calculation of radiation-reaction corrected orbits of binary black hole systems. These systems are expected to be detectable by the LISA space based gravitational wave observatory. We also investigate how alternate techniques may be employed in some specific cases and use these as a check on our own results.