The Memory Effect for Particle Scattering in Even Spacetime Dimensions
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-07-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We explicitly calculate the gravitational wave memory effect for classical point particle sources in linearized gravity off of an even dimensional Minkowski background. We show that there is no memory effect in dimensions, in agreement with the general analysis of Hollands, Ishibashi, and Wald (2016).
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@article{arxiv.1702.00095,
title = {The Memory Effect for Particle Scattering in Even Spacetime Dimensions},
author = {David Garfinkle and Stefan Hollands and Akihiro Ishibashi and Alexander Tolish and Robert M. Wald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00095},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 pages. Typos corrected, reference added, eq. (11) corrected and clarified (results unchanged), arguments in secs. IV,V revised (results unchanged)