Mass and Motion in General Relativity - Softcover

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Preface by editors. 1 The Higgs mechanism and the origin of mass (A. Djouadi). 2 Testing basic laws of gravitation (C. Lämmerzahl). 3 Mass metrology and the International System of units (R.S. Davis). 4 Mass and angular momentum in general relativity (J.L. Jaramillo and E. Gourgoulhon). 5 Post-Newtonian theory and the two-body problem (L. Blanchet) 6 Post-Newtonian methods (G. Schäfer). 7 Effective one body description of the Tow-Body problem (T. Damour and A. Nagar). 8 Introduction to the self-force (R.M. Wald). 9 Derivation of Gravitational Self-Force (S.E. Gralla and R.M. Wald). 10 Elementary development of the gravitational self-force (S. Detweiler). 11 Constructing the self-force (E. Poisson). 12 Computational methods for the self force in black hole spacetimes (L. Barack). 13 Radiation reaction and energy-momentum conservation (D. Gal'tsov). 14 The state of current self-force research (L.M. Burko). 15 High-accuracy comparison between the post-Newtonian and self-force dynamics of black-hole binaries (L. Blanchet, S. Detweiler, A. Le Tiec and B.F. Whiting). 16 LISA and capture sources (O. Jennrich). 17 Motion in alternative thoeries of gravity (G. Esposito-Farèse. 18 Mass, inertia and gravitation (M-T. Jaekel and S. Reynaud). 19 Motion in quantum gravity (K. Noui). 20 Free fall and the self-force: an historical perspective (A. Spallicci).

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