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Spinning relativistic particles in external fields
Andrei A Pomeranskii1, Roman A Sen'kov1 and Iosif B Khriplovich1
©, 2000 Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk and Russian Academy of Sciences
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1063-7869/43/10/R03
The motion of spinning relativistic particles in external electromagnetic and gravitational fields is considered. The self-consistent equations of motion are built with the noncovariant description of spin and with the usual, 'naive' definition of the coordinate of a relativistic particle. A simple derivation of the gravitational interaction of first order in spin is presented for a relativistic particle. The approach developed allows one to consider effects of higher order in spin. Concrete calculations are performed for the second order. The gravimagnetic moment is discussed, a special spin effect in general relativity. We also consider the contributions of the spin interactions of first and second order to the gravitational radiation of compact binary stars.