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Gravitational waves travel through the distributions of matter and dark energy during propagation. For this reason, gravitational waves emitted from binary compact objects serve as a useful tool especially to probe the nature of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Shun Arai , Shinji Mukohyama

Wave-optics phenomena in gravitational lensing occur when the signal's wavelength is commensurate to the gravitational radius of the lens. Although potentially detectable in lensed gravitational waves, fast radio bursts and pulsars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-20 Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Stefano Savastano , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Lyla Choi , Srashti Goyal , Liang Dai , Giovanni Tambalo

We investigate the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG) that belongs to a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 J. D. Toniato , M. Novello

Continuous gravitational waves are analogous to monochromatic light and therefore could be used to detect wave effects like interference or diffraction. This would be possible with strongly lensed gravitational waves. This article reviews…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Marek Biesiada , Sreekanth Harikumar

Gravitational waves affect the observed direction of light from distant sources. At telescopes, this change in direction appears as periodic variations in the apparent positions of these sources on the sky; that is, as proper motion. A wave…

The basic laws of geometrical optics can be deduced from energy-momentum conservation for electromagnetic waves, without other wave concepts. However, the concept of quanta is required; it arises naturally, hence such a hypothesis could…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Hernandez

We consider the effects of Weyl geometry on the propagation of electromagnetic waves and on the gravitational spin Hall effect of light. It is usually assumed that in vacuum the electromagnetic waves propagate along null geodesics, a result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Marius A. Oancea , Tiberiu Harko

We discuss how small-scale density perturbations on the Fresnel scale affect amplitudes and phases of gravitational waves that are magnified by gravitational lensing in geometric optics. We derive equations that connect the small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Masamune Oguri , Ryuichi Takahashi

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

Gravitational waves (GW), as light, are gravitationally lensed by intervening matter, deflecting their trajectories, delaying their arrival and occasionally producing multiple images. In theories beyond general relativity (GR), new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Jose María Ezquiaga , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We initiate the study of gravitational-wave lensing in the wave-optics regime within modified gravity. We consider a phenomenological setup in which the gravitational-wave amplitude obeys a curvature-coupled propagation equation. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The wave description of geometric phase uses the superposition of light waves to explain the geometric phase's origin. While our previous work focused on a basis of linearly polarized waves, here we show that the same concepts can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Luis Garza-Soto , Nathan Hagen

We show that the Maxwell equations describing an electromagnetic wave are a mathematical consequence of the Einstein equations for the same wave. This fact is significant for the problem of the Einsteinian metrics corresponding to the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 A. Loinger , T. Marsico

We derive the effects of a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation we consider the situation where the metric can be written as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-17 José Bernabeu , Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

We study the propagation of Maxwellian electromagnetic waves in curved spacetimes in terms of the appropriate geometrical optics limit, notions of signal speed, and minimal coupling prescription from Maxwellian theory in flat spacetime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Niels Linnemann , James Read

We consider light waves propagating clockwise and other light waves propagating counterclockwise around a closed path in a plane (theoretically with the help of stationary mirrors). The time difference between the two light propagating path…

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

In this short paper we investigate quantum gravitational effects on Einstein's equations using effective field theory techniques. We consider the leading order quantum gravitational correction to the wave equation. Besides the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Xavier Calmet , Iberê Kuntz , Sonali Mohapatra

In arXiv:1105.5629, equations of the modified geometrical optics for circularly polarized photon trajectories in a stationary spacetime are derived by using a (1+3)-decomposed form of Maxwell's equations. We derive the same results by using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Chul-Moon Yoo

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in vacuum is often described within the geometrical optics approximation, which predicts that wave rays follow null geodesics. However, this model is valid only in the limit of infinitely high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 Marius A. Oancea , Jérémie Joudioux , I. Y. Dodin , D. E. Ruiz , Claudio F. Paganini , Lars Andersson

An effect of geometrical phase shift is predicted for a light beam propagating in the field of a gravitational wave. Gravitational radiation detection experiments are proposed using this new effect, the corresponding estimates being given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-15 N V Mitskievich , A I Nesterov