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In this paper it is introduced and studied an alternative theory of gravitation in flat Minkowski space. Using an antisymmetric tensor, which is analogous to the tensor of electromagnetic field, a non-linear connection is introduced. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-17 Kostadin Trencevski , Emilija G. Celakoska , Vladimir Balan

{\sl A Hamiltonian framework for 2+1 dimensional gravity coupled with matter (satisfying positive energy conditions) is considered in the asymptotically flat context. It is shown that the total energy of the system is non-negative,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Abhay Ashtekar , Madhavan Varadarajan

We investigate a linearized tensor-tensor theory of gravity with torsion and a perturbed torsion wave solution is discovered in background Minkowski spacetime with zero torsion. Furthermore, gauge transformations of any perturbed tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-02 Chih-Hung Wang

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

We discuss dynamical aspects of gravitational plane waves in Einstein theory with massless scalar fields. The general analytic solution describes colliding gravitational waves with constant polarization, which interact with scalar waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Jorge G. Russo

The nonlocal theory of accelerated systems is extended to linear gravitational waves as measured by accelerated observers in Minkowski spacetime. The implications of this approach are discussed. In particular, the nonlocal modifications of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Bahram Mashhoon

As a substitute for the current hypothesis of space-time continuity, we show the nature and the characteristics of a Schild's discrete space-time. With the wave perturbations of its metrical structure we formulate the working hypothesis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter E. R. Cassani

Introduction to the theoretical foundations of gravitational waves: from general relativity to detection and binary system waveforms. Lecture notes prepared for the MaNiTou summer school on gravitational waves. Draft chapter for the CNRS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Simone Speziale , Danièle A. Steer

This chapter provides an overview of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, providing background material that underpins the other, more specialized chapters in this handbook. It starts with a brief historical review of the development of GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Nigel T. Bishop

Within the framework of relativistic theory of gravitation the exact spherically-symmetric wave solution is received. It is shown that this solution possesses the positive-definite energy and momentum deriving with the Fock energy-momentum…

General Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 A. A. Leonovich , Yu. P. Vyblyi

We study the gravitational radiation emitted during the scattering of two spinless bodies in the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory approach. We derive the conserved stress-energy tensor linearly coupled to gravity and the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Stavros Mougiakakos , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Filippo Vernizzi

It is well known that the most reliable way to reveal the quantum nature of light is through photon number statistics, since photons exhibiting sub-Poissonian statistics unambiguously demonstrate their quantum behavior. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda , Akira Taniguchi

We present an exact plane wave solution of the most general shift-symmetric Horndeski (generalized Galileon) theory. The solution consists of the scalar part, and the gravitational part with two polarization modes. The former is due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-23 Eugeny Babichev

General relativity is highly successful in explaining a wide range of gravitational phenomena including the gravitational waves emitted by binary systems and the shadows cast by supermassive black holes. From a modern perspective the theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Jesse Daas , Cristobal Laporte , Frank Saueressig , Tim van Dijk

In this paper we show how a gravitational field generated by a given energy-momentum distribution (for all realistic cases) can be represented by distinct geometrical structures (Lorentzian, teleparallel and non null nonmetricity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 E. A. Notte-Cuello , R. da Rocha , W. A. Rodrigues

We use the basic equations that predict the emission of gravitational waves according to the Einstein gravitation theory to calculate the luminosities and the amplitudes of the waves generated by binary stars, pulsations of neutron stars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-11 M. Cattani

In this paper, we establish a model-independent framework based on the Isaacson picture to analyze the gravitational-wave effects in the most general vector-tensor theory that yields second-order field equations. Within this framework, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

The equations which determine the response of a spinning charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field to an incident gravitational wave are derived in the linearized approximation to general relativity. We verify that 1) the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. B. Papadopoulos

We develop a Hamiltonian formalism suitable to be applied to gauge theories in the presence of Gravitation, and to Gravity itself when considered as a gauge theory. It is based on a nonlinear realization of the Poincar\'e group, taken as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. López--Pinto , A. Tiemblo , R. Tresguerres

We consider the standard gauge theory of Poincar\'{e} group, realizing as a subgroup of $GL(5. R)$. The main problem of this theory was appearing of the fields connected with non-Lorentz symmetries, whose physical sense was unclear. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Merab Gogberashvili