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Sayak Datta

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Preprint Aug 2026

Dynamical Friction as Environmental Gravitational Self-Force

Dynamical friction (DF) and gravitational-wave radiation reaction are conventionally treated as distinct dissipative mechanisms acting on a compact object inspiraling through a matter environment. We show that DF is not an additional force but a term at order $q^2\epsilon$ in a covariant multiparameter expansion of the...

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