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This paper discusses the gauge issue touching the gravitational waves induced at the second order by the scalar modes of cosmological perturbations. These waves are known to depend on the gauge used for their calculation. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-27 Vincent Comeau

In this talk I review how a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ affects the propagation of gravitational waves and their detection in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). If $\Lambda\neq 0$ it turns out that waves are anharmonic in cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Domenec Espriu

We generalize our previous linear result [1] in obtaining gravitational waves from our piecewise flat model for gravity in 3+1 dimensions to exact piecewise flat configurations describing exact planar gravitational waves. We show explicitly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-28 Maarten van de Meent

We study gravitational waves with torsion as exact vacuum solutions of three-dimensional gravity with propagating torsion. The new solutions are a natural generalization of the plane-fronted gravitational waves in general relativity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-16 M. Blagojević , B. Cvetković

Nonlinear waves in defocusing media are investigated in the framework of the hydrodynamic description of light as a photon fluid. The observations are interpreted in terms of an emergent curved spacetime generated by the waves themselves,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-07 Francesco Marino , Calum Maitland , David Vocke , Antonello Ortolan , Daniele Faccio

Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jerzy Paczos , Navdeep Arya , Sofia Qvarfort , Daniel Braun , Magdalena Zych

We show that the self-interactions present in the effective field theory formulation of general relativity can couple gravitational wave modes and generate nonclassical states. The output of gravitational nonlinear processes can also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Thiago Guerreiro

The problem of reconstructing non-harmonic internal gravity wave packets generated by a source moving in a stratified ocean is considered. The uniform asymptotic form of the internal gravity waves field generated by a source moving above…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-28 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

The models currently used in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) either do not consider a relative motion between the center-of-mass of the source and the observer, or usually only consider its effect on the frequencies of GWs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Xian Chen , Zhoujian Cao , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Peng Peng

Geometric optics effectively describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves when the wavelength is much smaller than the characteristic length scale of the medium, making wave phenomena like diffraction negligible. As a result, light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno , Rama Vadapalli

The present work investigates some exact solutions of the gravitational wave equation in some widely used cosmological spacetimes. The examples are taken from spatially flat and closed isotropic models as well as Kasner metric which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-06 Sushovan Mondal , Saif Ali , Shanima S , Narayan Banerjee , Golam Mortuza Hossain

In this paper, the initial value problem of the convection-diffusion equation of Burgers type is treated. In the asymptotic profile of solutions, the nonlinearity of the equation is reflected. Regarding the solutions to this model, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Masakazu Yamamoto

From a classical analysis, it is shown that the nondiffractive accelerating gravitational Airy wave packets are solutions of Einstein equations for their linearized tensor modes in a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Claudio Aravena-Plaza , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo

We investigate using plane fronted gravitational wave space-times as model systems to study loop quantization techniques and dispersion relations. In this classical analysis, we start with planar symmetric space-times in the real connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-17 Franz Hinterleitner , Seth Major

The nature of gravity can be tested by how gravitational waves (GWs) are emitted, detected, and propagate through the universe. Propagation tests are powerful, as small deviations compound over cosmological distances. However, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-03 Nicola Menadeo , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Noncommutative gravity is a natural method of quantizing spacetime by promoting the spacetime coordinates themselves to operators which do not commute. This approach is motivated, for example, from a quantum gravity perspective, among…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 Leah Jenks , Kent Yagi , Stephon Alexander

We study the tensorial modes of the two-fluid model, where one of this fluids has an equation of state $p = - \rho/3$ (variable cosmological constant, cosmic string fluid, texture) or $p = - \rho$ (cosmological constant), while the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Fabris , S. V. B. Goncalves

We study the effect of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on the propagation and detection of gravitational waves. To this purpose we investigate the linearised Einstein's equations with terms up to linear order in $\Lambda$ in a de Sitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 J. Näf , P. Jetzer , M. Sereno

The equations for gravitational plane waves produced by a typical binary system as a solution of linear approximation of Einstein equations is derived. The dynamics of the corresponding gravitational field is analyzed in a 4-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 S. Nayeh , A. Latifi , S. Arbabi , M. Ghominejad

Gravitational waves in general relativity are non-dispersive, yet a host of modified theories predict dispersion effects during propagation. In this work, we consider the impact of dispersion effects on gravitational-wave bursts from highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Nicholas Loutrel , Ava Bailey , Davide Gerosa