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To clarify certain nonlinear properties of strong gravitational field, we investigate cylindrically symmetric gravitational waves that are localized as regular wave packets in the space of radial and time coordinates. The waves are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Takashi Mishima , Shinya Tomizawa

We study in a Brill-Hartle type of approximation the back-reaction of a superposition of linear gravitational waves in an Einstein-de Sitter background up to the second order in the small wave amplitudes $h_{ik}$. The wave amplitudes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Dautcourt

A generic consequence of supersymmetry is formation of a scalar condensate along the flat directions of the potential at the end of cosmological inflation. This condensate is usually unstable, and it can fragment into non-topological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Alexander Kusenko , Anupam Mazumdar

The emission of gravitational waves from a system of massive objects interacting on hyperbolic orbits is studied in the quadrupole approximation. Analytic expressions are derived for the gravitational radiation luminosity, the total energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. Nucita

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

The causal structure of the flat brane universe of RSII type is re-investigated to clarify the boundary conditions for stochastic gravitational waves. In terms of the Gaussian normal coordinate of the brane, a singularity of the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Kouji Nakamura

It has been argued that the energy content in time varying spacetimes can be obtained by using the approximate Lie symmetries of the geodesics equations in that spacetime. When applied to cylindrical gravitational waves, it gives a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-11 Asghar Qadir

Inspired by the studies of gravitational waves in anti-de Sitter universe, in general relativity, in this paper we investigate the possibility of similar solutions in IIB string theory on $AdS_3 x S^3 x R^4$. We give a general form for such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Alok Kumar

We prove the existence and the linear stability of small amplitude time {\it quasi-periodic} standing wave solutions (i.e. periodic and even in the space variable $ x $) of a $ 2 $-dimensional ocean with infinite depth under the action of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Massimiliano Berti , Riccardo Montalto

Spherical dust collapse generally forms a shell focusing naked singularity at the symmetric center. This naked singularity is massless. Further the Newtonian gravitational potential and speed of the dust fluid elements are everywhere much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Nakao , H. Iguchi , T. Harada

In the weak field approximation the gravitational wave is approximated as a linear wave, which ignores the nonlinear effect. In this paper, we present an exact general solution of the cylindrical gravitational wave. The exact solution of…

General Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Yu-Zhu Chen , Yu-Jie Chen , Shi-Lin Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

We present a unified description of gravitational-wave data analysis that unites the template-based analysis used to detect deterministic signals from well-modeled sources, such as binary-black-hole mergers, with the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Neil J. Cornish , Joseph D. Romano

Starting with the periodic waves earlier constructed for the gravity Whitham equation, we parameterise the solution curves through relative wave height, and use a limiting argument to obtain a full family of solitary waves. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Mats Ehrnström , Katerina Nik , Christoph Walker

We derive the exact gravitational wave solutions in a general class of quadratic metric-affine gauge gravity models. The Lagrangian includes all possible linear and quadratic invariants constructed from the torsion, nonmetricity and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Alejandro Jiménez-Cano , Yuri N. Obukhov

In this paper we construct negatively curved Einstein spaces describing gravitational waves having a solvegeometry wave-front (i.e., the wave-fronts are solvable Lie groups equipped with a left-invariant metric). Using the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sigbjorn Hervik

We discuss the production of gravity waves from the fragmentation of a supersymmetric condensate in the early universe. Supersymmetry predicts the existence of flat directions in the potential. At the end of inflation, the scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Alexander Kusenko , Anupam Mazumdar , Tuomas Multamaki

Vacuum gravitational fields admitting a light-like Killing field were systematically studied starting around 1960. Besides the already known plane waves, a second class of gravitational wave fields was found. In contrast to plane waves,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 G. Dautcourt

Spiral wave solutions are found in linear and weakly nonlinear irrotational water wave equations. These unsteady spiral waves evolve from suitable initial conditions; they are not induced by external forcing. In the linear case, a long-time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Sean D. Nixon

New expanding, axisymmetric pure-radiation solutions are found, exploiting the analogy with the Euler-Darboux equation for aligned colliding plane waves.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. V. Ivanov

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