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1st ed. 2015.

1 online resource (XIII, 840 pages 89 illustrations, 59 illustrations in color.)

Fundamental Theories of Physics

Preface -- The New Mechanics of Myron Mathisson and its subsequent development -- Multipolar test body equations of motion in generalized gravity theories -- Energy-Momentum Tensors and Motion in Special Relativity -- Solutions of Mathisson-Papapetrou equations for highly relativistic spinning particles -- The MPD Equations in Analytic Perturbative Form -- Center of mass, spin supplementary conditions and the momentum of spinning particles -- General Relativistic Two-Body Problem: Theory and Experiment and the Role of Hidden Momentum -- Equations of Motion of Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr Particles -- From singularities of fields to equations of particles motion -- Motion of spinless particles in gravitational fields -- On the Strong Field Point Particle Limit and Equation of Motion in General Relativity -- Motion in classical field theories and the foundations of the self-force problem -- Motion of small objects in curved spacetimes: An introduction to gravitational self-force -- Self-force: Computational Strategies -- On the self-force in electrodynamics and implications for gravity -- Self-gravitating elastic bodies -- On geodesic dynamics in deformed black-hole fields -- Higher order post-Newtonian dynamics of compact binary systems in Hamiltonian form -- Spin and quadrupole contributions to the motion of astrophysical binaries -- Testing the motion of strongly self-gravitating bodies with radio pulsars -- Equations of Motion in an Expanding Universe -- The Galactic Center Black Hole Laboratory -- Extreme mass ratio inspirals: perspectives for their detection -- Level sets of the lapse function in static GR -- Aberrational Effects for Shadows of Black Holes -- Time-domain inspiral templates for spinning compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits

L�ammerzahl, Claus. , Puetzfeld, Dirk. , Schutz, Bernard.