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Gravitational-wave memory effects are identified by their distinctive effects on families of freely falling observers: after a burst of waves pass by their locations, memory effects can cause lasting relative displacements of the observers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Alexander Saffer , Leo C. Stein , Kent Yagi

The relation between gravitational memory effects and Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry of the asymptotically flat spacetimes is studied in the scalar-tensor theory. For this purpose, the solutions to the equations of motion near the future null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Shaoqi Hou , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

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

Brans-Dicke theory contains an additional propagating mode which causes homogeneous expansion and contraction of test bodies in transverse directions. This "breathing" mode is associated with novel memory effects in addition to those of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Ali Seraj

The gravitational memory effects of Chern-Simons modified gravity are considered in the asymptotically flat spacetime. If the Chern-Simons scalar does not directly couple with the ordinary matter fields, there are also displacement, spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-10 Shaoqi Hou , Tao Zhu , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

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

This article reviews one of the most intriguing properties of black hole spacetimes known in the literature -- gravitational memory effect, and its connection with asymptotic symmetries, also termed as Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Shailesh Kumar

Memory effects are studied in the simplest scalar-tensor theory, the Brans--Dicke (BD) theory. To this end, we introduce, in BD theory, novel Kundt spacetimes (without and with gyratonic terms), which serve as backgrounds for the ensuing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 Siddhant Siddhant , Indranil Chakraborty , Sayan Kar

Gravitational wave memory is studied in the context of a certain class of braneworld wormholes. Unlike other wormhole geometries, this novel class of wormholes do not require any exotic matter fields for its traversability. First, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

We analyze the infrared structure and memory effects of a massless vector tensor theory with non minimal curvature coupling in asymptotically flat spacetimes. Using Bondi Sachs expansions, we identify the independent radiative data and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Pouneh Safarzadeh Ilkhchi , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Shaoqi Hou

Gravitational memory, which describes the permanent shift in the strain after the passage of gravitational waves, is directly related to Weinberg's soft graviton theorems and the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry group of asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

The asymptotic symmetries in Brans-Dicke theory are analyzed using Penrose's conformal completion method, which is independent of the coordinate system used. These symmetries indeed include supertranslations and Lorentz transformations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-11 Shaoqi Hou , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent years, they have garnered particular interest, both due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alexander M. Grant , Keefe Mitman

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

We investigate the behavior of massless scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized gravitational perturbations near null infinity in d \geq 4 dimensional Minkowski spacetime (of both even and odd dimension) under the assumption that these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

A traversable wormhole solution of general scalar-tensor field equations is presented. We have shown, after a numerical analysis for the behavior of the scalar field of Brans-Dicke theory, that the solution is completely singularity--free.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. A. Anchordoqui , M. L. Trobo , H. Vucetich , F. Zyserman

It is well known that the memory effect in flat spacetime is parametrized by the BMS supertranslation. We investigate the relation between the memory effect and diffeomorphism in de Sitter spacetime. We find that gravitational memory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-14 Yuta Hamada , Min-Seok Seo , Gary Shiu

The transit of a gravitating radiation pulse past arrays of detectors stationed near future null infinity in the vacuum is considered. It is shown that the relative positions and clock times of the detectors before and after the radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-24 Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov
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