Classical Aspects of General Relativity

The following research areas are of interest for this research line:

• analysis and interpretation of exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations;

• spacetime splitting techniques, measurement process and the role of the observer in General Relativity;

• particle dynamics in certain gravitational backgrounds (either test particles with scalar structure: the mass, or particles with internal structure: spinning test particles and particles with multipolar structure, quadrupolar and beyond);

• gravitational perturbations and gravitational self-force;

• gravitational waves, with applications to binary systems and effective one-body model.
 



Group leader: Donato Bini (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone,” CNR, Rome

Group members: Robert Jantzen (Villanova University, PA, USA)

Previous members: C. Cherubini, F. de Felice, A Geralico, R. Ruffini

Brief description



Figure taken from a recently submitted paper on Godel spacetime, concerning special type of planar orbits.
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Figure taken from a recently submitted paper on two-body scattering at the first post-Minkowskian level.
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Recent publications



1) Bini D., Geralico A., Jantzen R.T. "Black hole geodesic parallel transport and the Marck reduction procedure", Phys. Rev. D, 99, 064041 (2019). e-print arXiv:1807.10085, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.064041

2) Bini D., Geralico A., Plastino W. "Cylindrical gravitational waves: C-energy, super-energy and associated dynamical effects", Class. Quantum Grav., 36, 095012 (2019). e-print arXiv:1812.07938 [gr-qc], DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab10ec

3) Nagar A., Messina F., Rettegno P., Bini D., Damour T., Geralico A., Akcay S., Bernuzzi S. "Nonlinear-in-spin effects in effective-one-body waveform models of spin-aligned, inspiralling, neutron star binaries", Phys. Rev. D 99, 044007 (2019). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.044007, [arXiv:1812.07923 [gr-qc]]

4) Bini D., Geralico A., Jantzen R.T., Plastino W. "Godel spacetime: elliptic-like geodesics and gyroscope precession", Phys. Rev. D, 100, 084051, (2019). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084051, e-print arXiv:1905.04917 [gr-qc]

5) Bini D., Geralico A., Gionti G., Plastino W., Velandia N. "Scattering of uncharged particles in the field of two extremely charged black holes", Gen. Rel. Gravitation, 51, 153, (2019). e-print arXiv:1906.01991 [gr-qc], DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s10714-019-2642-y

6) Bini D. and Geralico A. "New gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole: redshift invariant", Phys. Rev. D, 100, 104002, (2019). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104002, e-print arXiv:1907.11080 [gr-qc]

7) Bini D. and Geralico A. "New gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole: gyroscope precession", Phys. Rev. D, 100, 104003, (2019). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104003, e-print arXiv:1907.11082 [gr-qc]

8) Bini D. and Geralico A. "Analytical determination of the periastron advance in spinning binaries from self-force computations", Phys. Rev. D, 100, 121502, (2019). e-print arXiv:1907.11083 [gr-qc]

9) Bini D., Damour T. and Geralico A. "Novel approach to binary dynamics: application to the fifth post-Newtonian level", Phys. Rev. Lett., 123, 231104, (2019). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231104, e-print arXiv:1909.02375 [gr-qc]

10) Bini D., Damour T. and Geralico A. "Scattering of tidally interacting bodies in post-Minkowskian gravity", Phys. Rev. D., 101, 044039, (2020)