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It is shown that the dynamical evolution of linear perturbations on a static space-time is governed by a constrained wave equation for the extrinsic curvature tensor. The spatial part of the wave operator is manifestly elliptic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Sarbach , M. Heusler , O. Brodbeck

This review explores modified theories of gravity, particularly $f(R)$ gravity, as extensions to General Relativity (GR) that offer alternatives to dark energy for explaining cosmic acceleration. These models generalize the Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Rafid H. Dejrah

The gravitational constant variation means the breakdown of the strong equivalence principle. As the cornerstone of general relativity, the validity of general relativity can be examined by studying the gravitational constant variation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Bing Sun , Jiachen An , Zhoujian Cao

We derive the exact gravitational wave solutions in a general class of quadratic Poincar\'e gauge gravity models. The Lagrangian includes all possible linear and quadratic invariants constructed from the torsion and the curvature, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Yuri N. Obukhov

The description of gravitational waves as explosion and implosion waves as predicted by Weber and Wheeler [{\it Rev. Mod. Phys. {\bf 29} 509 (1957)}] in Einstein and Rosen spacetime, has recently been confirmed following observations by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Jean Jules Defo , Victor Kamgang Kuetche

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

We revisit the notion of quantum Lie algebra of symmetries of a noncommutative spacetime, its elements are shown to be the generators of infinitesimal transformations and are naturally identified with physical observables. Wave equations on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Paolo Aschieri , Andrzej Borowiec , Anna Pachol

A derivation is presented of the quantummechanical wave equations based upon the Equity Principle of Einstein's General Relativity Theory. This is believed to be more generic than the common derivations based upon Einstein's energy…

General Physics · Physics 2007-07-19 Engel Roza

We offer a mathematical toolkit for the study of waves propagating on a background manifold with nonvanishing torsion. Examples include electromagnetic and gravitational waves on a spacetime with torsion. The toolkit comprises generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-23 José Barrientos , Fernando Izaurieta , Eduardo Rodríguez , Omar Valdivia

The Madelung transformation of the space in which a quantum wave function takes its values is generalized from complex numbers to include field spaces that contain orbits of groups that are diffeomorphic to spheres. The general form for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-05 David Delphenich

We analyze the gravitational waves within the Spinor Theory of Gravity and compare it with the General Relativity proposal. In the case of STG a gravitational wave may occur if the effective gravitational metric induced by the spinorial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Mario Novello , Angelo E. S. Hartmann

We have recently derived a manifestly covariant evolution law, under the geometrical optics approximation of the vacuum Maxwell's equations, for the electric field along null geodesics in a general spacetime, relative to an arbitrary set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-27 João C. Lobato , Isabela S. Matos , Lucas T. Santana , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Maurício O. Calvão

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

We solve the wave equation for gravitational waves emitted by compact objects systems using the Multipolar Post-Minkowskian (MPM) method, and in the presence of Lorentz invariance violating terms. We select a Lorentz-violating extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Samy Aoulad Lafkih , Marie-Christine Angonin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Nils A. Nilsson

Spacetime is considered to be everywhere Minkowski except at the location where a signal wave of energy interacts with the gravitational field. The conformal metric f[k(x-vt)]Nuv is suitably chosen to represent this interaction, where…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 Walter J. Christensen

We present a general and unified formulation which can handle the classical evolution and quantum generation processes of the cosmological gravitational wave in a broad class of generalized gravity theories. Applications are made in several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Hwang

For the strong gravitational wave model, an explicit transformation is obtained from a privileged coordinate system with a wave variable to a synchronous reference frame with separation of time and space variables. In a synchronous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Konstantin E. Osetrin , Vladimir Y. Epp , Sergey V. Chervon

It is well known that Einstein's equations assume a simple polynomial form in the Hamiltonian framework based on a Yang-Mills phase space. We re-examine the gravitational dynamics in this framework and show that {\em time} evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Abhay Ashtekar , Madhavan Varadarajan

The post-Minkowskian limit and gravitational wave solutions for general fourth-order gravity theories are discussed. Specifically, we consider a Lagrangian with a generic function of curvature invariants $f(R,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-28 A. Stabile , S. Capozziello

We consider non-relativistic point-particles coupled to Einstein gravity and their canonical quantization. From the resulting Wheeler-DeWitt wave equation we determine a quantum version of geometrodynamics, where the coupled evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-19 Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts , Ward Struyve