Dimensional regularization of the IR divergences in the Fokker action of point-particle binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian order

作者：Bernard Laura^*; Blanchet Luc^*; Bohe Alejandro^*; Faye Guillaume^*; Marsat Sylvain^*

来源：PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017, 96(10): 104043.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevD.96.104043

The Fokker action of point-particle binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation of general relativity has been determined previously. However two ambiguity parameters associated with infrared (IR) divergencies of spatial integrals had to be introduced. These two parameters were fixed by comparison with gravitational self-force (GSF) calculations of the conserved energy and periastron advance for circular orbits in the test-mass limit. In the present paper together with a companion paper, we determine both these ambiguities from first principle, by means of dimensional regularization. Our computation is thus entirely defined within the dimensional regularization scheme, for treating at once the IR and ultra-violet (UV) divergencies. In particular, we obtain crucial contributions coming from the Einstein-Hilbert part of the action and from the nonlocal tail term in arbitrary dimensions, which resolve the ambiguities.

• 出版日期2017-11-27