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We will now study some first simple applications of the formalism as it has been developed so far. Note that we have not yet treated the gravitational N-body problem and precisely for that reason the discussions in this chapter are incomplete and will be continued later. Nevertheless, considerable insight into some basic problems can be obtained in this way.
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Soffel, M.H., Han, WB. (2019). First Applications of the PN-Formalism. In: Applied General Relativity. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19673-8_8
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