- Accepted Paper
All-order structure of static gravitational interactions and the seventh post-Newtonian potential
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kcxq-7zsk
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kcxq-7zsk
We present a closed formula for the computation of static post-Newtonian corrections to the two-body gravitational dynamics at any odd order, assuming the lower-order results are known. The formula is derived within a correlation function framework and exploits the symmetry of the static sector, leading to a novel theoretical interpretation of the factorization theorem. As an application, we compute the gravitational interaction of two compact coalescing objects at the seventh post-Newtonian order in the static limit, which receives contributions from seven-loop graphs at order , and find complete agreement with the results obtained using the diagrammatic approach of the factorization theorem.
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