Self-Force and Radiation Reaction in General Relativity - Lecture 1
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Overview
Syllabus
Self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity
Motivation - Compact binaries
Binary frequency
Ground-based detectors are sensitive to f approximately 100 hz
EMRIs
Wave forms give us information
Test no-hair theorem i.e Kerr black hole
Modeling
Black hole perturbation theory / self-force theory
Equation of motion
How high order?
Review - Barack & Pound
Perturbation theory
Taylor series
What equation h power n alpha beta satisfy?
Define C power alpha beta gamma
Proof
Einstein field equation
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