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This paper investigates the effects of nonvanishing spatial curvature on the propagation of primordial gravitational waves produced during inflation. In particular, we consider tensor perturbations over a homogeneous and isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Rocco D'Agostino , Matteo Califano , Nicola Menadeo , Daniele Vernieri

We revisit the effects of an early matter-dominated era on gravitational waves induced by scalar perturbations. We carefully take into account the evolution of the gravitational potential, the source of these induced gravitational waves,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Keisuke Inomata , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Nakama , Takahiro Terada

Since the gravitational waves were detected by LIGO and Virgo, it has been promising that lots of information about the primordial Universe could be learned by further observations on stochastic gravitational waves background. The studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Xukun Zhang , Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhe Chang

We study gravitational waves induced from the primordial scalar perturbations at second order around the reheating of the Universe. We consider reheating scenarios in which a transition from an early matter dominated era to the radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Keisuke Inomata , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Nakama , Takahiro Terada

The future detection of gravitational wave forces us to consider the many ways in which astrophysics, gravitational wave theory and fundamental theory will interact. In this paper, I summarize some recent work done to develop such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 Nicolas Yunes

We present the second-order gravitational dynamics for a spacetime inhabited by matter fields which feature vacuum birefringence. The derivation follows a perturbative variant of the covariant constructive gravity program, ensuring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Nils Alex

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful probe of the early universe due to their ability to free-stream across cosmic history. We study GW production in a compelling scenario where a rotating axion(-like) field becomes relevant for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Arushi Bodas , Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada , Lian-Tao Wang

The generation of gravitational waves during inflation due to the non-linear coupling of scalar and tensor modes is discussed. Two methods describing gravitational wave perturbations are used and compared: a covariant and local approach, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Bob Osano , Cyril Pitrou , Peter Dunsby , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Chris Clarkson

In this paper we study gravitational wave perturbations in a cosmological setting of bigravity which can reproduce the {\Lambda}CDM background and large scale structure. We show that in general gravitational wave perturbations are unstable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer , Pietro Guarato , Mariele Motta

A new effect is described by which primordial gravity waves leave a permanent signature in the large scale structure of the Universe. The effect occurs at second order in perturbation theory and is sensitive to the order in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Ue-Li Pen

We investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the evolution of gravitational waves through the preheating era that follows inflation. The oscillating inflaton drives parametric resonant growth of scalar field fluctuations, and although super-Hubble tensor modes are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Tilley , Roy Maartens

In a previous paper [1] we considered the possibility that (within the early-radiation epoch) there has been (also) a short period of a significant presence of cosmic strings. During this radiation-plus-strings stage the Universe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Kostas Kleidis , Apostolos Kuiroukidis , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer

With the detection of Gravitational waves just about an year ago Einstein`s general theory of relativity- a space-time theory of gravity, got established on a firmer footing than any other theory in physics. Gravitational waves are just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 A. R. Prasanna

Second-order tensor modes induced by nonlinear gravity are a key component of the cosmological background of gravitational waves. A detection of this background would allow us to probe the primordial power spectrum at otherwise inaccessible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Atsuhisa Ota , Hayley J. Macpherson , William R. Coulton

It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. The increasing number of the detected…

We consider the evolution of relativistic perturbations in the Einstein-de Sitter cosmological model, including second-order effects. The perturbations are considered in two different settings: the widely used synchronous gauge and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Matarrese , S. Mollerach , M. Bruni

Gravitational waves induced by primordial perturbations serve as crucial probes for studying the early universe, providing a significant window into potential new physics during cosmic evolution. Due to the potentially large amplitudes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Yu-Ting Kuang , Di Wu , H. Lü , Zhe Chang

The next generation of gravitational wave detectors holds out the prospect of detecting a stochastic gravitational background generated in the very early universe. In this article, we review the various cosmological processes which can lead…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

Gravitational-wave detectors on earth have detected gravitational waves from merging compact objects in the local Universe. In future we will detect gravitational waves from higher-redshift sources, which trace the high-redshift structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Tomohiro Nakama