Mass and motion in general relativity [electronic resource] / Luc Blanchet, Alessandro Spallicci, Bernard Whiting, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Higgs mechanism and the origin of mass / Abdelhak Djouadi -- Testing basic laws of gravitation : are our postulates on dynamics and gravitation supported by experimental evidence? / Claus Lämmerzahl -- Mass metrology and the international system of units (SI) / Richard S. Davis -- Mass and angular momentum in general relativity / José Luis Jaramillo and Eric Gourgoulhon -- Post-Newtonian theory and the two-body problem / Luc Blanchet -- Post-Newtonian methods : analytic results on the binary problem / Gerhard Schäfer -- The effective one-body description of the two-body problem / Thibault Damour and Alessandro Nagar -- Introduction to gravitational self-force / Robert M. Wald -- Derivation of gravitational self-force / Samuel E. Gralla and Robert M. Wald -- Elementary development of the gravitational self-force / Steven Detweiler -- Constructing the self-force / Eric Poisson -- Computational methods for the self-force in black hole spacetimes / Leor Barack -- Radiation reaction and energy-momentum conservation / Dmitri Gal'tsov -- The state of current self-force research / Lior M. Burko -- High-accuracy comparison between the post-Newtonian and self-force dynamics of black-hole binaries / Luc Blanchet ... [et al.] -- LISA and capture sources / Oliver Jennrich -- Motion in alternative theories of gravity / Gilles Esposito-Farèse -- Mass, Inertia, and gravitation / Marc-Thierry Jaekel and Serge Reynaud -- Motion in quantum gravity/ Karim Noui -- Free fall and self-force : an historical perspective / Alessandro Spallicci.

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