Gravitational Wave - Gauge Field Oscillations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-06-05 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Gravitational waves propagating through a stationary gauge field transform into gauge field waves and back again. When multiple families of flavor-space locked gauge fields are present, the gravitational and gauge field waves exhibit novel dynamics. At high frequencies, the system behaves like coupled oscillators in which the gravitational wave is the central pacemaker. Due to energy conservation and exchange among the oscillators, the wave amplitudes lie on a multidimensional sphere, reminiscent of neutrino flavor oscillations. This phenomenon has implications for cosmological scenarios based on flavor-space locked gauge fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.08939,
title = {Gravitational Wave - Gauge Field Oscillations},
author = {R. R. Caldwell and C. Devulder and N. A. Maksimova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08939},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, 1 animation; replacement matches published version