Nonlinear interaction between electromagnetic and gravitational waves: an appraisal
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-11-22 v1
Abstract
Wave propagation of field disturbances is ubiquitous. The electromagnetic and gravitational are cousin theories in which the corresponding waves play a relevant role to understand several related physical. It has been established that small electromagnetic waves can generate gravitational waves and vice versa when scattered by a charged black hole. In the realm of cylindrical spacetimes, we present here a simple nonlinear effect of the conversion of electromagnetic to gravitational waves reflected by the amount of mass extracted from them.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.05771,
title = {Nonlinear interaction between electromagnetic and gravitational waves: an appraisal},
author = {W. Barreto and H. P. de Oliveira and E. L. Rodrigues},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05771},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, awarded honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2017 essay competition