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Pure gravitational plane waves are considered as a special case of spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing vector fields. Starting with a midisuperspace that describes this kind of spacetimes, we introduce gauge-fixing and symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Manuel Montejo

We analyze the weak-field limit of General Relativity with matter and its possible quantisations. This analysis aims towards a predictive quantum theory to provide a first-principles description of gravitational effects in macroscopic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Charis Anastopoulos , Mihalis Lagouvardos , Konstantina Savvidou

In this article, I present an elementary introduction to the theory of gravitational waves. This article is meant for students who have had an exposure to general relativity, but, results from general relativity used in the main discussion…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrajit Chakrabarty

In order to explain weak gravitation in our 4-dimensional universe, a 6-dimensional model with a small extra 2D sphere is proposed. The traceless energy-momentum tensor is quite naturally appeared in our 6-dimensional model. The warp factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-23 Akira Kokado , Takesi Saito

We study the tensorial modes of the two-fluid model, where one of this fluids has an equation of state $p = - \rho/3$ (variable cosmological constant, cosmic string fluid, texture) or $p = - \rho$ (cosmological constant), while the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Fabris , S. V. B. Goncalves

We show how the model of pseudo-complex general relativity can be tested using gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact objects. The model, which agrees with Einstein gravity in the weak-field limit, diverges dramatically in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Alex B. Nielsen , Ofek Birnholtz

We study f(R,T) theories of gravity, where T is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor T_{\mu\nu}, with independent metric and affine connection (metric-affine theories). We find that the resulting field equations share a close resemblance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 E. Barrientos , Francisco S. N. Lobo , S. Mendoza , Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia

We study the degrees of freedom of the metric in a general class of higher derivative gravity models, which are interesting in the context of quantum gravity as they are (super)renormalizable. First, we linearize the theory for a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-05 Patric Hölscher

As a low energy effective field theory, classical General Relativity receives an infrared relevant modification from the conformal trace anomaly of the energy-momentum tensor of massless, or nearly massless, quantum fields. The local form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-04 Emil Mottola

We investigate gravitational waves in the $f(Q)$ gravity, i.e., a geometric theory of gravity described by a non-metric compatible connection, free from torsion and curvature, known as symmetric-teleparallel gravity. We show that $f(Q)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-02 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Shin'ichi Nojiri

Second-order tensor perturbations induced by primordial fluctuations play a crucial role in probing small-scale physics, but gauge dependence of their energy density has remained a fundamental challenge in cosmological perturbation theory.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Chen Yuan , Yizhou Lu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

We formulate cosmological perturbation theory around the spatially curved FLRW background in the context of metric-affine gauge theory of gravity which includes torsion and nonmetricity. Performing scalar-vector-tensor decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 Katsuki Aoki , Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Mohammad Ali Gorji

We study the linear wave equation on a class of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes in the decelerated regime with spatial topology $\mathbb{R}^3$. Employing twisted $t$-weighted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Mahdi Haghshenas

We derive new exact gravitational wave solutions with dynamical torsion and nonmetricity tensors in the framework of cubic Metric-Affine Gravity (MAG). For this purpose, we consider the full algebraic classification of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , José M. M. Senovilla

We peform a study of gravitational waves emitted by inspiraling black holes in the context of quadratic gravity. By linearizing the field equations around a flat background, we demonstrate that all degrees of freedom satisfy wave-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Matheus F. S. Alves , Luís F. M. A. M. Reis , L. G. Medeiros

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

In this work, we investigate the generation and propagation of gravitational waves within a minimal gravitational SME (Standard Model Extension). Starting from the modified graviton dispersion relation derived in the linearized gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

The spectral triple approach to noncommutative geometry allows one to develop the entire standard model (and supersymmetric extensions) of particle physics from a purely geometry stand point and thus treats both gravity and particle physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 William Nelson , Joseph Ochoa , Mairi Sakellariadou

We study the gravitational waves in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Applying the metric perturbation around a cosmological background, we obtain explicit expressions for the wave equations. It is shown that the speed of the traceless mode is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masahiko Taniguchi

In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal