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We perform tests of General Relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral stage of compact binaries using a theory-independent framework, which adds generic phase corrections to each multipole of a GR waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Alessandra Buonanno , Roberto Cotesta , Abhirup Ghosh , Noah Sennett , Jan Steinhoff

We investigate the polarization modes of gravitational waves in $f(Q)$ non-metric gravity without gauge fixing. The main result of this study is that no further scalar mode appears more than the two standard plus and cross transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo

General cylindrical waves are the simplest axisymmetrical gravitational waves that contain both $+$ and $\times$ modes of polarization. In this paper, we have studied the evolution of general cylindrical gravitational waves in the realm of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-18 Juliana Celestino , H. P. de Oliveira , E. L. Rodrigues

Relations between the kinematical tensors (the expansion, the shear, and the vorticity) and the polarization modes of gravitational waves are studied within the context of metric theories of gravity by considering freely falling test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Cynthia Maldonado , Francisco Nettel , Pedro A. Sánchez

We study primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) in the Horava-Lifshitz (HL) theory of quantum gravity, in which high-order spatial derivative operators, including the ones violating parity, generically appear in order for the theory to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu

The dual parametrization and the Mellin-Barnes integral approach represent two frameworks for handling the double partial wave expansion of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in the conformal partial waves and in the $t$-channel ${\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Dieter Müller , Maxim V. Polyakov , Kirill M. Semenov-Tian-Shansky

The models of New General Relativity have recently got attention of research community, and there are some works studying their dynamical properties. The formal aspects of this investigation have been mostly restricted to the primary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Alexey Golovnev , A. N. Semenova , V. P. Vandeev

We introduce a new multipole formalism for polarized radiative transfer in general spacetime geometries. The polarization tensor is expanded in terms of coordinate-independent, projected symmetric trace-free (PSTF) tensor-valued multipoles.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Challinor

Recently, an extension to the Parameterized Post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism has been proposed. This formalism, the Parameterized Post-Newtonian-Vainshteinian (PPNV) formalism, is well suited to theories which exhibit Vainshtein screening of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Nadia Bolis , Constantinos Skordis , Daniel B Thomas , Tom Zlosnik

In this review we examine the amplitude intensity associated to tensorial and non-tensorial polarization modes generated by binary systems at their inspiral stage, within the alternative theories of gravity of Brans Dicke, Rosen, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Alejandro Casallas-Lagos , Claudia Moreno , Javier M. Antelis , Rafael Hernández-Jiménez

We study the generalized version of energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG) in the Palatini formalism. This theory allows the existence of a scalar constructed with energy-momentum tensor as $T_{\alpha\beta}T^{\alpha\beta}$ in the generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-28 Elham Nazari , Farahnaz Sarvi , Mahmood Roshan

We investigate the different polarization modes of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in $f(R)$ gravity power law model in de Sitter space. It is seen that the massive scalar field polarization mode exists in this model. The mass of the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Umananda Dev Goswami

Gravitational waves (GWs) distort galaxy shapes through the tidal effect, offering a novel avenue to probe the nature of gravity. In this paper, we investigate how extra GW polarizations beyond those predicted by general relativity imprint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yusuke Mikura , Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

With the increasing wealth of high-quality astronomical and cosmological data and the manifold departures from General Relativity in principle conceivable, the development of generalized parametrization frameworks that unify gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Lucas Lombriser

Strong-field gravitational plane waves are often represented in either the Rosen or Brinkmann forms. While these two metric ansatze are related by a coordinate transformation, so that they should describe essentially the same physics, they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Bethan Cropp , Matt Visser

Brans-Dicke (BD), one of the first proposed scalar-tensor theories of gravity, effectively makes the gravitational constant of general relativity (GR) time-dependent. Constraints on the BD parameter $\omega$ serve as a benchmark for testing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Herman Sletmoen , Hans A. Winther

We investigate the gravitational waves and their properties in various modified teleparallel theories, such as $f(T), f(T,B)$ and $f(T,T_G)$ gravities. We perform the perturbation analysis both around a Minkowski background, as well as in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The main aim of this study is the comparison of gravitational waveforms obtained from numerical simulations which employ different numerical evolution approaches and different wave-extraction techniques. For this purpose, we evolve an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-11 Luca Baiotti , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Giovanni Corvino , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandro Nagar

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves are described by two polarisation states: the plus $+$ state and cross $\times$ state. However, alternate theories of gravity allow up to six polarisations. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Shun Yin Cheung , Lachlan Passenger , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Polarization is a prominent feature of gravitational wave observations and can be used to distinguish between different modified gravity theories. Compared to General Relativity, f(R) gravity exhibits an additional polarization originating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Xin-Dong Du , Peng-Cheng Li