Einstein's action and the harmonic gauge in terms of Newtonian fields

Barak Kol*, Michael Smolkin

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Abstract

The Newtonian or nonrelativistic decomposition of Einstein's gravitational field is useful in the post-Newtonian approximation. We obtain the full nonquadratic Einstein-Hilbert action in terms of these fields as well as the harmonic gauge fixing term and find fairly simple expressions. We discuss alternatives to the harmonic gauge.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044029
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume85
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Feb 2012

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