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Despite the tremendous success of general relativity so far, modified theories of gravity have received increased attention lately, motivated from both theoretical and observational aspects. Gravitational wave observations opened new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Sharaban Tahura , Kent Yagi

In this second paper we define a Post-Minkowskian (PM) weak field approximation leading to a linearization of the Hamilton equations of ADM tetrad gravity in the York canonical basis in a family of non-harmonic 3-orthogonal Schwinger time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 David Alba , Luca Lusanna

We present a new computation of the asymptotic gravitational wave energy fluxes emitted by a {\it spinning} particle in circular equatorial orbits about a Kerr black hole. The particle dynamics is computed in the pole-dipole approximation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-08 Enno Harms , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

The proper-time method for constructing perturbative dynamical gravitational fields is presented. Using the proper-time method, a perturbative analytical model of gravitational waves against the backdrop of an exact wave solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Konstantin Osetrin

We propose a polymer quantization scheme to derive the effective propagation of gravitational waves on a classical Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. These waves, which may originate from a high energy source, are a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Angel Garcia-Chung , James B. Mertens , Saeed Rastgoo , Yaser Tavakoli , Paulo Vargas Moniz

This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and total gravitational-wave energy flux of non-spinning compact binary systems to the 4PN (fourth post-Newtonian) order beyond the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Quentin Henry , François Larrouturou , David Trestini

A mixture of light-gas particles and Brownian heavy particles is analyzed within the framework of a post-Newtonian Boltzmann equation to determine the Fokker-Planck equation for the Brownian motion. For each species, the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gilberto M. Kremer

We introduce a novel approach for detecting gravitational waves through their influence on the shape of resolved astronomical objects. This method, complementary to pulsar timing arrays and astrometric techniques, explores the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo R. Contaldi

In the continuation of a preceding work, we derive a new expression for the metric in the near zone of an isolated matter system in post-Newtonian approximations of general relativity. The post-Newtonian metric, a solution of the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Samaya Nissanke

A Hamiltonian linearization of the rest-frame instant form of tetrad gravity (gr-qc/0302084), where the Hamiltonian is the weak ADM energy ${\hat E}_{ADM}$, in a completely fixed (non harmonic) 3-orthogonal Hamiltonian gauge is defined. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Juri Agresti , Roberto De Pietri , Luca Lusanna , Luca Martucci

This paper is the fourth in a series dedicated to the mathematically rigorous asymptotic analysis of gravitational radiation under astrophysically realistic setups. It provides an overview of the physical ideas involved in setting up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Lionor Kehrberger

In Einstein's theory of relativity, the interaction of two collinearly polarized plane gravitational waves can be described by a Goursat problem for the Euler--Darboux equation in a triangular domain. In this paper, using a representation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Julian Mauersberger

A systematic asymptotic expansion is developed for the gravitational wave degrees of freedom of a class of expanding, vacuum Gowdy cosmological spacetimes. In the wave map description of these models, the evolution of the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Beverly K. Berger

A new asymptotic expansion method is developed to separate the Wheeler-DeWitt equation into the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a matter field and the Einstein-Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the gravitational field including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sang Pyo Kim

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens

The behaviour of a "test" electromagnetic field in the background of an exact gravitational plane wave is investigated in the framework of Einstein's general relativity. We have expressed the general solution to the de Rham equations as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Montanari , Mirco Calura

Gravitational waves provide a unique window into gravity, cosmology, and high-energy physics, enabling the exploration of fundamental phenomena across a wide range of scales. This review presents a coherent and pedagogical framework that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Azadeh Maleknejad

A general treatment of vorticity-free, perfect fluid perturbations of Kantowski-Sachs models with a positive cosmological constant are considered within the framework of the 1+1+2 covariant decomposition of spacetime. The dynamics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Zoltán Keresztes , Mats Forsberg , Michael Bradley , Peter K. S. Dunsby , László Á. Gergely

Since gravitational wave spacetimes are time-varying vacuum solutions of Einstein's field equations, there is no unambiguous means to define their energy content. However, Weber and Wheeler had demonstrated that they do impart energy to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-12 Ibrar Hussain , F. M. Mahomed , Asghar Qadir

This work devises a formalism to obtain the equations of motion for a black hole-fluid configuration. Our approach is based on a Post-Newtonian expansion and adapted to scenarios where obtaining the relevant dynamics requires long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-01 Enrico Barausse , Luis Lehner