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Gauge Independence of Induced Gravitational Waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-29 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study gauge (in)dependence of the gravitational waves (GWs) induced from curvature perturbations. For the GWs produced in a radiation-dominated era, we find that the observable (late-time) GWs in the TT gauge and in the Newtonian gauge are the same in contrast to a claim in the literature. We also mention the interpretation of the gauge dependence of the tensor perturbations which appears in the context of the induced GWs.

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@article{arxiv.1912.00785,
  title  = {Gauge Independence of Induced Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Keisuke Inomata and Takahiro Terada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00785},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure; published version (minor revision)