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Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

Contrary to conformal transformations, disformal transformations can change the principal null directions of a spacetime geometry. Thus, depending on the frame a gravitational wave (GW) detector minimally couples to, the properties of GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Jibril Ben Achour , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Hugo Roussille

The nonlinear theory of acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs) in the atmosphere is revisited with the effects of the Coriolis force. Previous theory in the literature [Phys. Scr. \textbf{90} (2015) 055001] is advanced. Starting from a set of fluid…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Debjani Chatterjee , A. P. Misra

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) are ubiquitous in many early-Universe processes accompanied by non-Gaussianity; while Gaussian perturbation can generate significant SIGWs, computations of SIGWs can be significantly affected and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng , Zhuan Ning , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

The physical non-existence of gravitational waves (GW's) as a consequence of the non-existence in general relativity (GR) of physically privileged reference frames, and of the ``plasticity'' of relativistic notion of a coordinate system.

General Physics · Physics 2007-09-05 Angelo Loinger

A problem of finding the linear theory satisfaction limits in propagation of the internal gravity waves is considered. It is evident that internal gravity waves excitation, propagation in actual practice is highly nonlinear phenomenon.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-18 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

We study the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) beyond general relativity (GR) across homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. We consider scenarios in which GWs interact with an additional tensor field and use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Meng-Xiang Lin

A family of exact vacuum solutions, representing generalized plane waves propagating on the (anti-)de Sitter background, is constructed in the framework of Poincar\'e gauge theory. The wave dynamics is defined by the general Lagrangian that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-21 Milutin Blagojević , Branislav Cvetković , Yuri N. Obukhov

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

A description is made of the process of excitation of bound longitudinal-transverse gravitational waves during the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a dielectric medium. It is shown that the speed of such gravitational waves is less…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-13 A. N. Morozov , V. I. Pustovoit , I. V. Fomin

We revisit the vital issue of gauge dependence in the scalar-induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs), focusing on the radiation domination (RD) and matter domination (MD) eras. The energy density spectrum is the main physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 Arshad Ali , Ya-Peng Hu , Mudassar Sabir , Taotao Sui

We revisit and clarify the gauge dependence of gravitational waves generated at second order from scalar perturbations. In a universe dominated by a perfect fluid with a constant equation-of-state parameter $w$, we compute the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Keitaro Tomikawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Even if Einstein's General Relativity achieved a great success and overcame lots of experimental tests, it also showed some shortcomings and flaws which today advise theorists to ask if it is the definitive theory of gravity. In this letter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-16 Christian Corda

A wave pulse (be it a gravitational wave or a light wave) undergoes anomalous dispersion in a vacuum in flat spacetimes with an even number of spatial dimensions even if all the frequencies move at the same speed. Such an anomalous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Emel Altas , Ercan Kilicarslan , Bayram Tekin

We investigate scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the framework of spatially covariant gravity (SCG), a broad class of Lorentz-violating modified gravity theories respecting only spatial diffeomorphism invariance. Extending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Jiehao Jiang , Jieming Lin , Xian Gao

We investigate possible signatures of quantum gravity which could be tested with current and future gravitational-wave (GW) observations. In particular, we analyze how quantum gravity can influence the GW luminosity distance, the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-08 Gianluca Calcagni , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sylvain Marsat , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We investigate the scalar sector of linear cosmological perturbations in quadratic gravity. Working in the Einstein frame, we derive the equations of motion in a gauge-independent manner and express them in terms of three sets of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Adrian Palomares , Ying-li Zhang , Jinsu Kim

Satellite observations of acoustic-gravity waves in the polar regions of the atmosphere indicate a close connection of these waves with wind flows. The paper investigates the peculiarities of the propagation of AGWs in spatially…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 A. K. Fedorenko , E. I. Kryuchkov , O. K. Cheremnykh , Yu. O. Klymenko , S. V. Melnychuk

We demonstrate that mechanical waves traveling in a torsional, mechanical wave machine exhibit dispersion due to gravity and the discreteness of the medium. We also show that although the dispersion due to discreteness is negligible, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rafael de la Madrid , Alejandro Gonzalez , George Irwin