English
Related papers

Related papers: Gravitational waves induced by massless vector fie…

200 papers

We study partially massless gravity theory(PM gravity theory) and suggest an alternative way to add higher order interaction vertices to the theory. Rather than introducing self interaction vertices of the gravitational fields to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Lunchakorn Tannukij , Jae-Hyuk Oh

We consider non-linear plane gravitational waves as propagating space-time defects, and construct the Burgers vector of the waves. In the context of classical continuum systems, the Burgers vector is a measure of the deformation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

We investigate the inhomogeneous inflation, in which the space exponentially expands with inhomogeneities, and its cosmological perturbations. The inhomogeneous inflation is realized by introducing scalar fields with spacelike gradients…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Xian Gao , Chao Kang

We exhibit a purely quantum mechanical carrier of the imprints of gravitation by identifying for a relativistic system a property which (i) is independent of its mass and (ii) expresses the Poincare invariance of spacetime in the absence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ulrich H. Gerlach

We calculate the gravitational waves (GW) spectrum produced in various Early Universe scenarios from gauge field sources, thus generalizing earlier inflationary calculations to bouncing cosmologies. We consider generic couplings between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ido Ben-Dayan

The notion of null (isotropic) vector field is considered in spaces with affine connections and metrics as models of space or space-time. On its basis the propagation of signals in space-time is considered. The Doppler effect is generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sawa Manoff

We study the statistics of the primordial power spectrum in models where massless gauge vectors are coupled to the inflaton, paying special attention to observational implications of having fundamental or effective horizons embedded in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 Mikjel Thorsrud , Federico R. Urban , David F. Mota

We consider a generic dispersive massive gravity theory and numerically study its resulting modified energy and strain spectra of tensor gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by (i) fully developed turbulence during the electroweak phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Yutong He , Axel Brandenburg , Aditya Sinha

Induced gravitational waves provide a powerful probe of primordial perturbations in the early universe through their distinctive spectral properties. We analyze the spectral energy density $\Omega_{\text{GW}}$ of gravitational waves induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Chang Han , Zu-Cheng Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

This paper is the third in a series of theorems which state how cosmological observations can provide evidence for an early phase of acceleration in the universe. Previous theorems demonstrated that the observed power spectrum for scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ghazal Geshnizjani , William H. Kinney

Large-scale primordial perturbations have been well constrained by current cosmological observations, but the properties of small-scale perturbations remain elusive. This study focuses on second-order induced gravitational waves generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Di Wu , Zhi-Chao Li , Peng-Yu Wu , Fei-Yu Chen , Jing-Zhi Zhou

Gravitational waves (GWs) generate oscillating electromagnetic effects in the vicinity of external electric and magnetic fields. We discuss this phenomenon with a particular focus on reinterpreting the results of axion haloscopes based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Valerie Domcke , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Nicholas L. Rodd

We investigate primordial gravitational waves and curvature perturbations in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) bimetric gravity. We evaluate the power-spectra in the leading order in slow roll. Taking into account the decay of massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-17 Yuki Sakakihara , Takahiro Tanaka

A non-minimal coupling of Weyl curvatures to electromagnetic fields is considered in Brans-Dicke-Maxwell theory. The gravitational field equations are formulated in a Riemannian spacetime where the spacetime torsion is constrained to zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Tekin Dereli , Yorgo Senikoglu

Waves in space-dependent and time-dependent materials obey similar wave equations, with interchanged time- and space-coordinates. However, since the causality conditions are the same in both types of material (i.e., without interchangement…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Kees Wapenaar , Johannes Aichele , Dirk-Jan van Manen

We investigate the propagation of scalar waves induced by matter sources in the context of scalar-tensor theories of gravity which include screening mechanisms for the scalar degree of freedom. The usual approach when studying these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Jan Ø. Lindroos , Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota

We compute the abundance of cosmological gravitational waves produced during the evolution of an ultralight vector (spin-1) dark matter field. A homogeneous background vector field breaks spatial isotropy, requiring a Bianchi I geometry and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir

We discuss gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a heavy spectator field that starts to oscillate during inflation. During the oscillation of the spectator field, its effective mass can also oscillate in some potentials. This mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Keisuke Inomata

We study the effects of oscillating, ultralight scalar and pseudoscalar fields on the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). We consider two potential couplings of the (pseudo)scalars to gravity; a parity-even Gauss-Bonnet coupling, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Leah Jenks , Marc Kamionkowski

Probing the polarization of gravitational waves (GWs) would provide an evidence of graviton, indicating the quantization of gravity. Motivated by the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, we make an attempt to study the possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Qianfan Wu , Weishan Zhu , Longlong Feng