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Along the lines of the Einstein-Rosen wave equation of General Relativity (GR), we derive a gravitational wave equation with cylindrical symmetry in the Einstein-aether (EA) theory. We show that the gravitational wave in the EA is periodic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , V. H. Satheeshkumar

Pure gravitational plane waves are considered as a special case of spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing vector fields. Starting with a midisuperspace that describes this kind of spacetimes, we introduce gauge-fixing and symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Manuel Montejo

Einstein-aether theory provides a model to test the validity of local Lorentz invariance in gravitational interactions. The speed of gravitational waves as measured from the binary neutron star event GW170817 sets stringent limits on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Julius Streibert , Hector O. Silva , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Fully non-linear, plane-symmetric exact solutions of the Einstein equations describing the scattering of gravitational and electromagnetic waves have existed for many years. For these closed-form solutions to be found, idealized wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Breanna Camden , Chris Stevens , John Forbes

A gauge-invariant formulation for the gravitational wave equations is presented. Using this approach, weak, plane wave solutions in a vacuum are derived in various theories. These include general relativity with two modes of polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Junpei Harada

Exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum equations are considered which describe gravitational waves with distinct wavefronts. A family of such solutions presented recently in which the wavefronts have various geometries and which propagate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G A Alekseev , J B Griffiths

Exact plane gravitational radiation fields are presented within the framework of general relativity and their properties are described. The physics of nonlinear elliptically polarized plane gravitational waves is developed in close analogy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Masoud Molaei , Shant Baghram , Bahram Mashhoon

By making use of the weak gravitational field approximation, we obtain a linearized solution of the gravitational vacuum field equation in an anisotropic spacetime. The plane-wave solution and dispersion relation of gravitational wave is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-03 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

We review the status of "Einstein-Aether theory", a generally covariant theory of gravity coupled to a dynamical, unit timelike vector field that breaks local Lorentz symmetry. Aspects of waves, stars, black holes, and cosmology are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Eling , T. Jacobson , D. Mattingly

We analyze the propagation and polarization properties of high-frequency gravitational waves in Einstein-\AE ther theory on vorticity-free and slowly-varying backgrounds at both leading and next-to-leading orders within the geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Shinji Mukohyama , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper, the polarization contents of Einstein-\ae ther theory and the generalized TeVeS theory are studied. The Einstein-\ae ther theory has five polarizations, while the generalized TeVeS theory has six. In particular, transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-10 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong

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

We present some remarkable properties of the symmetry group for gravitational plane waves. Our main observation is that metrics with plane wave symmetry satisfy every system of generally covariant vacuum field equations except the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. G. Torre

For the quadratic theory of gravity with a scalar field, exact solutions are found for gravitational-wave models in Shapovalov~I~type spacetimes, which do not arise in models of the general theory of relativity. The theory of gravity under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Konstantin Osetrin , Ilya Kirnos , Altair Filippov

The known exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations modeling the gravitational fields of pure gravitational radiation involve wave fronts which are either planar or roughly spherical. We describe a scheme designed to check…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-02 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

Five classes of radiative solutions of Einstein's field equations are discussed in the light of some new developments. These are plane waves and their collisions, cylindrical waves, Robinson-Trautman and type N spacetimes, boost-rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Jiri Bicak

Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental property of Einstein's theory of general relativity that one may wish to test with gravitational wave observations. Einstein-aether theory is a model that introduces Lorentz-symmetry breaking in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 Kristen Schumacher , Scott Ellis Perkins , Ashley Shaw , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

In this work, we investigate the gravitational wave emission from the periodic orbital motion of a test particle around two specific types of black holes in Einstein-\AE{}ther theory, a modified gravity that locally breaks Lorentz symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-02 Shuo Lu , Tao Zhu

In his 1916 ground-breaking general relativity paper Einstein had imposed a restrictive coordinate condition, his field equations were valid for coordinate systems which are unimodular. Later, Einstein published a paper on gravitational…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Galina Weinstein

The construction of exact linearized solutions to the Einstein equations within the Bondi-Sachs formalism is extended to the case of linearization about de Sitter spacetime. The gravitational wave field measured by distant observers is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-03 Nigel T. Bishop