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The initial value problem of scalar-tensor theories of gravity (STT) is analyzed in the physical (Jordan) frame using a 3+1 decomposition of spacetime. A first order strongly hyperbolic system is obtained for which the well posedness of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcelo Salgado , David Martinez-del Rio

We study gravitational perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime by solving a hyperboloidal initial value problem for the Bardeen-Press equation. Compactification along hyperboloidal surfaces in a scri-fixing gauge allows us to have access…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Anil Zenginoglu , Dario Nunez , Sascha Husa

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

We numerically investigate the propagation of plane gravitational waves in the form of an initial boundary value problem with de Sitter initial data. The full non-linear Einstein equations with positive cosmological constant $\lambda$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-06 Jörg Frauendiener , Jonathan Hakata , Chris Stevens

An initial-boundary value problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation is considered. A three-level explicit in time and conditionally stable 4th-order compact scheme constructed recently for $n=2$ and the square mesh is generalized to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Alexander Zlotnik

This is the first in a series of articles on the numerical solution of Friedrich's conformal field equations for Einstein's theory of gravity. We will discuss in this paper why one should be interested in applying the conformal method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 J. Frauendiener

We prove Strichartz estimates for gravity water waves, in arbitrary dimension and in fluid domains with general bottoms. We consider rough solutions such that, initially, the first order derivatives of the velocity field are not controlled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Burq , Claude Zuily

We demonstrate that Huygens' principle for gravitational waves fails in quadratic gravity models that exhibit conformal symmetry at high energies. This results in the blurring of gravitational wave signals over finite timescales related to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Jack Gegenberg , Sanjeev S. Seahra

Second-order tensor perturbations induced by primordial fluctuations play a crucial role in probing small-scale physics, but gauge dependence of their energy density has remained a fundamental challenge in cosmological perturbation theory.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Chen Yuan , Yizhou Lu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

We present a set of equations describing the cosmological gravitational wave in a gravity theory with quadratic order gravitational coupling terms which naturally arise in quantum correction procedures. It is known that the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Noh , J. Hwang

The issue of the gauge invariance of gravitational waves arises if they are produced in the early universe at second-order in perturbation theory. We address it by dividing the discussion about the gauge invariance in three parts: the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

Gravitational waves are inevitably produced by second order terms in cosmological perturbation theory. Most notably, the so-called induced gravitational waves are a window to the small scales part of the primordial spectrum of fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Guillem Domènech

We consider the gravitational radiation in conformal gravity theory. We perturb the metric from flat Mikowski space and obtain the wave equation after introducing the appropriate transformation for perturbation. We derive the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-28 Rong-Jia Yang

We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation. A distinctive feature of this model is that the end of inflation witnesses a brief phase during which the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Maria G. Romania , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

In this article we address some issues related to the initial value problems for a rotating shallow water hyperbolic system of equations and the diffusive regularization of this system. For initial data close to the solution at rest, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Nabil Bedjaoui , Vivien Desveaux , Olivier Goubet , Alice Masset

The dynamics of metric perturbations is explored in the gravity theory with anomaly-induced quantum corrections. Our first purpose is to derive the equation for gravitational waves in this theory on the general homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-21 Julio C. Fabris , Ana M. Pelinson , Filipe de O. Salles , Ilya L. Shapiro

Waves propagating through a gravitational potential exhibit wave-optics effects when their wavelength is not significantly smaller than the lensing scales. We study the propagation of a scalar wave, governed by the Klein-Gordon equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Emma Bruyère , Cyril Pitrou

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 investigate the initial value problem for the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity under the assumption of Gowdy symmetry on T3, and we construct matter spacetimes with low regularity. These spacetimes admit, both, impulsive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Philippe G. LeFloch , Alan D. Rendall

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