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Poincar\`e gauge theory (PGT) is an alternative gravity theory, which attempts to bring the gravity into the gauge-theoretic frame, where the Lagrangian is quadratic in torsion and curvature. Recently, the cosmological models with torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-23 Xi-Chen Ao , Xin-Zhou Li

A cosmology of Poincare gauge theory is developed, where several properties of universe corresponding to the cosmological equations with the pseudoscalar torsion function are investigated. The cosmological constant is found to be the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Jianbo Lu , Guoying Chee

For vacuum Maxwell theory in four dimensions, a supplementary condition exists (due to Eastwood and Singer) which is invariant under conformal rescalings of the metric, in agreement with the conformal symmetry of the Maxwell equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Giampiero Esposito , Cosimo Stornaiolo

Starting from the Oliva--Tempo--Troncoso black hole, a solution of the Bergshoeff--Hohm--Townsend massive gravity, a class of the Vaidya-like exact vacuum solutions with torsion is constructed in the three-dimensional Poincar\'e gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 M. Blagojević , B. Cvetković

In (1+2)-dimensional Poincar\'e gauge gravity, we start from a Lagrangian depending on torsion and curvature which includes additionally {\em translational} and {\em Lorentzian} Chern-Simons terms. Limiting ourselves to to a specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto A. Garcia , Friedrich W. Hehl , Christian Heinicke , Alfredo Macias

A Poincar\'{e} gauge theory of (2+1)-dimensional gravity is developed. Fundamental gravitational field variables are dreibein fields and Lorentz gauge potentials, and the theory is underlain with the Riemann-Cartan space-time. The most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Toshiharu Kawai

In this paper, we establish a unified parameterized framework for analyzing the polarization modes of gravitational waves in the general metric theory (gravity is only described by the metric) and the general scalar-tensor theory (gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

The gauge problem arises in the second order gravitational waves due to the mode mixing. Here, we introduce the transverse-traceless (TT) gauge to cosmological backgrounds, and find that if we choose the TT gauge at first order, the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Yadong Xue , Zhoujian Cao

In this paper we deal with quadratic metric-affine gravity, which we briefly introduce, explain and give historical and physical reasons for using this particular theory of gravity. Further, we introduce a generalisation of well known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-04 Vedad Pasic , Elvis Barakovic

Plane waves and pp-waves are well-known universal metrics that solve all metric-based gravitational field equations. Similarly, the Kerr-Schild-Kundt class of metrics is almost universal: all metric-based gravitational field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Metin Gurses , Tahsin Cagri Sisman , Bayram Tekin

We give an introductory overview of the classical Poincar\'e gauge theory of gravity formulated on the spacetime manifold that carries the Riemann-Cartan geometry with nontrivial curvature and torsion. After discussing the basic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-20 Yuri N. Obukhov

General relativity and its cosmological solution predicts the existence of tensor modes of perturbations evolving on top of our Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker expanding Universe. Being gauge invariant and not necessarily coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-20 Amaury Micheli , Patrick Peter

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 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

Here we consider the problem of small oscillations of a rotating inviscid incompressible fluid. From a mathematical point of view, new exact solutions to the two-dimensional Poincar\'e-Sobolev equation in a class of domains including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-24 S. D. Troitskaya

We find a new exact vacuum solution in the framework of the Poincar\'e Gauge field theory with massive torsion. In this model, torsion operates as an independent field and introduces corrections to the vacuum structure present in General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel

A general linear gauge-invariant equation for dispersive gravitational waves (GWs) propagating in matter is derived. This equation describes, on the same footing, both the usual tensor modes and the gravitational modes strongly coupled with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 Deepen Garg , I. Y. Dodin

We consider gauge theories from the free evolution point of view, in which initial data satisfying constraints of a theory are given. Because the constraints are compatible with the field equations they remain so. We study a model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 David Hilditch , Ronny Richter

Some principal problems of general relativity theory and attempts of their solution are discussed. The Poincare gauge theory of gravity as natural generalization of Einsteinian gravitation theory is considered. The changes of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 A. V. Minkevich

The family of metrics corresponding to the plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel propagation, commonly referred to as the family of pp-wave metrics, is studied in the context of various modified gravitational models in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-21 Ahmet Baykal