English
Related papers

Related papers: The Asymptotic Behavior of Massless Fields and the…

200 papers

The asymptotically flat structure of $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supergravity in three spacetime dimensions is explored. The asymptotic symmetries are spanned by an extension of the super-BMS$_3$ algebra, with two independent $\hat{u}(1)$ currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

The gravitational memory effect and its electromagnetic (EM) analog are potential probes in the strong gravity regime. In the literature, this effect is derived for static observers at asymptotic infinity. While this is a physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

Gravitational wave memory is a nonoscillatory correction to the gravitational wave strain predicted by general relativity, which has yet to be detected. Within general relativity, its dominant component, known as the null memory, can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Lavinia Heisenberg , Nicolás Yunes , Jann Zosso

A definition of asymptotic flatness at spatial infinity in $d$ dimensions ($d\geq 4$) is given using the conformal completion approach. Then we discuss asymptotic symmetry and conserved quantities. As in four dimensions, in $d$ dimensions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Kentaro Tanabe , Norihiro Tanahashi , Tetsuya Shiromizu

We explicitly calculate the gravitational wave memory effect for classical point particle sources in linearized gravity off of an even dimensional Minkowski background. We show that there is no memory effect in $d>4$ dimensions, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-04 David Garfinkle , Stefan Hollands , Akihiro Ishibashi , Alexander Tolish , Robert M. Wald

In this work, we compute the gravitational wave displacement and spin memory effects in de Sitter spacetime. Gravitational waves in asymptotically flat spacetimes are described by the Bondi-Sachs framework, where radiation at null infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Anthi Voulgari Revof , Shubhanshu Tiwari

Gravitational-wave memory effects are lasting changes in the strain and its time integrals. They can be computed in asymptotically flat spacetimes using the conservation and evolution equations in the Bondi-Sachs framework. Modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects are constant changes in the GW strain and its time integrals, which are closely connected to changes in the charges that characterize asymptotically flat spacetimes. The first GW memory effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 David A. Nichols

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects produce permanent shifts in the GW strain and its time integrals after the passage of a burst of GWs. Their presence is closely tied to symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes and fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

The memory effect for Robinson-Trautman waves is explicitly worked out. In a first step, we construct the combined frame rotation and coordinate transformation in which Robinson-Trautman waves are manifestly locally asymptotically flat at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Glenn Barnich , Ali Seraj

In this work, it is shown that based on the linear analysis, as long as a theory of gravity is diffeomorphism invariant and possesses the tensor degrees of freedom propagating at a constant, isotropic speed without dispersion, its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Shaoqi Hou

We study the propagation of a massless scalar wave in de Sitter spacetime perturbed by an arbitrary central mass. By focusing on the late time limit, this probes the portion of the scalar signal traveling inside the null cone. Unlike in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Yi-Zen Chu , M. Afif Ismail , Yen-Wei Liu

In general relativity, gravitational memory describes the lasting change in the separation and relative velocity of freely falling detectors after the passage of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we elucidate the relation between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

A scalar field coupled conformally and disformally to matter affects both the linear memory effect for binary systems on hyperbolic orbits, as well as the kick velocity for binaries on bound or unbound orbits. We study these corrections in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Philippe Brax , Danièle A. Steer

We analyze the gravity-induced effects associated with a massless scalar field in a higher-dimensional spacetime being the tensor product of $(d-n)$-dimensional Minkowski space and $n$-dimensional spherically/cylindrically-symmetric space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Yuri V. Grats , Pavel Spirin

We investigate memory dependent asymptotic growth in scalar Volterra equations with sublinear nonlinearity. To obtain precise results we utilise the powerful theory of regular variation extensively. By computing the growth rate in terms of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 John A. D. Appleby , Denis D. Patterson

The low energy effective action of gravity in any even dimension generally acquires non-local terms associated with the trace anomaly, generated by the quantum fluctuations of massless fields. The local auxiliary field description of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emil Mottola , Ruslan Vaulin

We study generalized scalar field models coupled to impurities in Minkowski spacetime with arbitrary dimensions. The investigation concerns a class of models that depends explicitly on the spacetime coordinates and also, it reveals the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 D. Bazeia , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

We consider a self-interacting scalar field whose mass saturates the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound, minimally coupled to Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant in D \geq 3 dimensions. It is shown that the asymptotic behavior…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Marc Henneaux , Cristian Martinez , Ricardo Troncoso , Jorge Zanelli

It has long been known that gravitational waves from compact binary coalescing sources are responsible for a first-order displacement memory effect experienced by a pair of freely falling test masses. This constant displacement is sourced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Atul K. Divakarla , Bernard F. Whiting