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So far, we considered several matter systems (particles, fields) in a prescribed gravitational field. The matter was influenced by the gravitational field—it was minimally coupled to gravity—but its own influence on the gravitational field was not discussed. But we know that the matter of the sun and the planets generates a measurable gravitational field. In Newton’s theory, this effect is described by the Poisson equation. This section is devoted to establish the corresponding relativistic equations for gravity and to study some of their basic properties.
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Hájíček, P. (2008). Dynamics of Gravity. In: An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78659-7_4
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