Gravitational and torsion waves in linearised teleparallel gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Spin-2, spin-1 and spin-0 modes in linearised teleparallelism are obtained where the totally skew-symmetric complex contortion tensor generates scalar torsion waves and the symmetric contortion in the last two indices generates gravitational waves as gravitational perturbations of flat spacetime with contortion tensor. A gedanken experiment with this gravitational-torsion wave hitting a ring of spinless particles is proposed which allows us to estimate the contortion of the Earth by making use of data from LISA GW detector. This value coincides with previous value obtained by Nitsch in teleparallelism using another type of experiment.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0206007,
title = {Gravitational and torsion waves in linearised teleparallel gravity},
author = {L. C. Garcia de Andrade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0206007},
year = {2007}
}
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