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Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics · +4 more institutions

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Abstract When two massive objects (black holes, neutron stars or stars) in our universe fly past each other, their gravitational interactions deflect their trajectories 1,2 . The gravitational waves emitted in the related bound-orbit system—the binary inspiral—are now routinely detected by gravitational-wave observatories 3 . Theoretical physics needs to provide high-precision templates to make use of unprecedented sensitivity and precision of the data from upcoming gravitational-wave observatories 4 . Motivated by this challenge, several analytical and numerical techniques have been developed to approximately solve this gravitational two-body problem. Although numerical relativity is accurate 5–7 , it is too…

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