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Metric Perturbation Approach to Gravitational Waves in Isotropic Cosmologies

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Gravitational waves in isotropic cosmologies were recently studied using the gauge-invariant approach of Ellis-Bruni. We now construct the linearised metric perturbations of the background Robertson-Walker space-time which reproduce the results obtained in that study. The analysis carried out here also facilitates an easy comparison with Bardeen.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0401106,
  title  = {Metric Perturbation Approach to Gravitational Waves in Isotropic Cosmologies},
  author = {E. M. O'Shea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0401106},
  year   = {2009}
}

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29 pages, Latex file, accepted for publication in Physical Review D