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Particle Motion under the Conservative Piece of the Self-Force is Hamiltonian
Francisco M Blanco1, Éanna É Flanagan1
1Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Abstract:
We consider the motion of a point particle in a stationary spacetime under the influence of a scalar, electromagnetic, or gravitational self-force. We show that the conservative piece of the first-order self-force gives rise to Hamiltonian dynamics, and we derive an explicit expression for the Hamiltonian on phase space. Specialized to the Kerr spacetime, our result generalizes the Hamiltonian function previously obtained by Fujita et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 34, 134001 (2017).CQGRDG0264-938110.1088/1361-6382/aa7342], which is valid only for nonresonant orbits.
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