Freely falling bodies in a standing-wave spacetime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-11-09 v2
Abstract
We study the motion of free masses subject to the influence of standing gravitational waves in the polarized Gowdy cosmology with a three-torus topology. We show that antinodes attract freely falling particles and we trace the velocity memory effect.
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@article{arxiv.2010.12549,
title = {Freely falling bodies in a standing-wave spacetime},
author = {Sebastian J. Szybka and Syed U. Naqvi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12549},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
23 pages, 8 figures; minor changes to match published version