Symplectic structure of post-Newtonian Hamiltonian for spinning compact binaries

被引:68
作者
Wu, Xin [1 ]
Xie, Yi [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Nanchang Univ, Dept Phys, Nanchang 330031, Peoples R China
[2] Nanchang Univ, Dept Astron, Nanchang 210093, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Missouri, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
DYNAMICS; MOTION; CHAOS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084045
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The phase space of a Hamiltonian system is symplectic. However, the post-Newtonian Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries in existing publications does not have this property, when position, momentum, and spin variables [X, P, S-1, S-2] compose its phase space. This may give a convenient application of perturbation theory to the derivation of the post-Newtonian formulation, but also makes classic theories of a symplectic Hamiltonian system a serious obstacle in application, especially in diagnosing integrability and nonintegrability from a dynamical system theory perspective. To completely understand the dynamical characteristic of the integrability or nonintegrability for the binary system, we construct a set of conjugate spin variables and reexpress the spin Hamiltonian part so as to make the complete Hamiltonian formulation symplectic. As a result, it is directly shown with the least number of independent isolating integrals that a conservative Hamiltonian compact binary system with both one spin and the pure orbital part to any post-Newtonian order is typically integrable and not chaotic. And a conservative binary system consisting of two spins restricted to the leading order spin-orbit interaction and the pure orbital part at all post-Newtonian orders is also integrable, independently on the mass ratio. For all other various spinning cases, the onset of chaos is possible.
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