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These notes provide a student-friendly introduction to the theory of gravitational waves in full, non-linear general relativity (GR). We aim for a balance between physical intuition and mathematical rigor and cover topics such as the…

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In this study, we investigate the polarization properties of gravitational waves within a torsionless spacetime framework, as described by the Palatini formalism. Our analysis uncovers the presence of two novel polarization modes, referred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

A Poincar\'{e} gauge theory of (2+1)-dimensional gravity is developed. Fundamental gravitational field variables are dreibein fields and Lorentz gauge potentials, and the theory is underlain with the Riemann-Cartan space-time. The most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Toshiharu Kawai

There exist six possible polarization modes of gravitational waves in general metric theory of gravity, while two tensor polarization modes are allowed in general relativity. The properties and number of polarization modes depend on gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Koji Nagano , Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama

Recently there are more and more interest on the gravitational wave of moving sources. This introduces a Lorentz transformation problem of gravitational wave. Although Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) theory has in principle already included the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Xiaokai He , Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

Second-order tensor modes induced by nonlinear gravity are a key component of the cosmological background of gravitational waves. A detection of this background would allow us to probe the primordial power spectrum at otherwise inaccessible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Atsuhisa Ota , Hayley J. Macpherson , William R. Coulton

In a general metric theory of gravitation in four dimensions, six polarizations of a gravitational wave are allowed: two scalar and two vector modes, in addition to two tensor modes in general relativity. Such additional polarization modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kazuhiro Hayama

In this Letter, we consider original Nash theory of gravity. In terms of the scalar fields representation, Nash gravity is equivalent to the action of bi-scalar tensor gravity with four derivative terms of metric tensor. We then quantify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-01 Phongpichit Channuie , Davood Momeni , Mudhahir Al Ajmi

In some modified theories of gravity, gravitational waves can contain up to six different polarizations, which can travel at speeds different from that of light. Searches for these different polarizations in gravitational wave data are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Kristen Schumacher , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

We investigate the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG) that belongs to a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 J. D. Toniato , M. Novello

Gravitational waves have only two polarization modes in General Relativity. However, there are six possible modes of polarization in metric theory of gravity in general. The tests of gravitational waves polarization can be tools for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama

Spin-2, spin-1 and spin-0 modes in linearised teleparallelism are obtained where the totally skew-symmetric complex contortion tensor generates scalar torsion waves and the symmetric contortion in the last two indices generates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

In nonlocal general relativity, linearized gravitational waves are damped as they propagate from the source to the receiver in the Minkowski vacuum. Nonlocal gravity is a generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Mashhoon

In this article, I present an elementary introduction to the theory of gravitational waves. This article is meant for students who have had an exposure to general relativity, but, results from general relativity used in the main discussion…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrajit Chakrabarty

We provide analysis to determine the effects of gravitational waves on electromagnetic waves, using perturbation theory in general relativity. Our analysis is performed in a completely covariant manner without invoking any coordinates. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 Chan Park , Dong-Hoon Kim

Using the Newman-Penrose formalism, we obtain the explicit expressions for the polarization modes of weak, plane gravitational waves with a massive graviton. Our analysis is restricted for a specific bimetric theory whose term of mass, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. L. S. de Paula , O. D. Miranda , R. M. Marinho

We study gravitational waves in viable $f(R)$ theories under a non-zero background curvature. In general, an $f(R)$ theory contains an extra scalar degree of freedom corresponding to a massive scalar mode of gravitational wave. For viable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Louis Yang , Chung-Chi Lee , Chao-Qiang Geng

General Relativity predicts only two tensor polarization modes for gravitational waves while at most six possible polarization modes are allowed in general metric theory of gravity. The number of polarization modes is determined by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chunyu Zhang

We investigate propagation of gravitational waves in the most general teleparallel gravity model with second order field equations around the Minkowski background. We argue that in this case the most general Lagrangian at the first order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

In this paper, we investigate the polarization modes of gravitational waves within the most general symmetric teleparallel gravity theory that allows for second-order field equations We consider both scenarios where test particles either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu