Gravitational spin-orbit coupling in binary systems, post-Minkowskian approximation, and effective one-body theory

A novel approach for extracting gauge-invariant information about spin-orbit coupling in gravitationally interacting binary systems is introduced. This approach is based on the "scattering holonomy", i.e. the integration (from the infinite past to the infinite future) of the differential spin evolution along the two worldlines of a binary system in hyperboliclike motion. We apply this approach to the computation, at the first post-Minkowskian approximation (i.e. first order in G and all orders in v/c), of the values of the two gyrogravitomagnetic ratios describing spin-orbit coupling in the effective one-body formalism. These gyrogravitomagnetic ratios are found to tend to zero in the ultrarelativistic limit.