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All-order structure of static gravitational interactions and the seventh post-Newtonian potential

Giacomo Brunello, Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Raj Patil, Matteo Pegorin, Sid Smith, and Jan Steinhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kcxq-7zsk

Abstract

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 ℤ2 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 𝒪(GN8v0), and find complete agreement with the results obtained using the diagrammatic approach of the factorization theorem.

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