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In this paper we present the power series solution of the Klein-Gordon equation in the spacetime background of a gravitational wave with amplitude that decays with distance from the source. The resulting solution describes the interaction…

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We discuss the propagation of gravitational waves over a non-Riemannian spacetime, when a non-minimal coupling between the geometry and matter is considered in the form of contractions of the energy momentum tensor with the Ricci and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Flavio Bombacigno , Fabio Moretti , Gonzalo J. Olmo

A short derivation is given of the weak gravitational field approximation to the scalar massless propagator in Schwarzschild spacetime obtained by Paszko using the path-integral approach. The contribution from the direct coupling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-22 C. Garcia-Recio , L. L. Salcedo

In a subclass of Horndeski theories with the speed of gravity equivalent to that of light, we study gravitational radiation emitted during the inspiral phase of compact binary systems. We compute the waveform of scalar perturbations under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Yurika Higashino , Shinji Tsujikawa

We construct the graviton propagator on de Sitter background in exact de Donder gauge. We prove that it must break de Sitter invariance, just like the propagator of the massless, minimally coupled scalar. Our explicit solutions for its two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-30 S. P. Miao , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

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

We revisit alternative mechanisms of gravitational wave production during inflation and argue that they generically emit a non-negligible amount of scalar fluctuations. We find the scalar power is larger than the tensor power by a factor of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Leonardo Senatore , Eva Silverstein , Matias Zaldarriaga

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

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

We study radial waves in (2+1)-dimensional noncommutative scalar field theory, using operatorial methods. The waves propagate along a discrete radial coordinate and are described by finite series deformations of Bessel-type functions. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ciprian Acatrinei

In realistic model-building, spinor fields with various masses are present. During inflation, spinor field may induce gravitational waves as a second order effect. In this paper, we calculate the contribution of single massive spinor field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Kaixi Feng , Yun-Song Piao

We study the generation and propagation of gravitational waves in scalar-tensor gravity using numerical relativity simulations of scalar field collapses beyond spherical symmetry. This allows us to compare the tensor and additional massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-16 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Pedro G. Ferreira , Katy Clough , Eugene A. Lim , Oliver J. Tattersall

Scalar induced gravitational waves contribute to the cosmological gravitational wave background. They can be related to the primordial density power spectrum produced towards the end of inflation and therefore are a convenient new tool to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Raphael Picard , Karim A. Malik

We use dimensional regularization to evaluate the one loop contribution to the graviton self-energy from a massless, minimally coupled scalar on a locally de Sitter background. For noncoincident points our result agrees with the stress…

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We study the propagation of gravitational waves carrying arbitrary information through isotropic cosmologies. The waves are modelled as small perturbations of the background Robertson-Walker geometry. The perfect fluid matter distribution…

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Many seismic imaging methods use wave field extrapolation operators to redatum sources and receivers from the surface into the subsurface. We discuss wave field extrapolation operators that account for internal multiple reflections, in…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Kees Wapenaar , Marcin Dukalski , Christian Reinicke , Roel Snieder

We derive the propagator for a massless, minimally coupled scalar on a $D$-dimensional, spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic background with arbitrary constant deceleration parameter. Our construction uses the operator formalism, by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 T. M. Janssen , S. P. Miao , T. Prokopec , R. P. Woodard

Given that gravitational waves are the future probes of the universe, it is important to test various physical effects of these on matter. This article explores the first-order perturbation, caused by a planar gravitational wave, on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-22 Siddhartha E. Morales G. , Arundhati Dasgupta

In this work, we investigate the generation and propagation of gravitational waves within a minimal gravitational SME (Standard Model Extension). Starting from the modified graviton dispersion relation derived in the linearized gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

We compute the gravitational waveform from a binary system in scalar-tensor gravity at 2PN relative order. We restrict our calculation to non-spinning binary systems on quasi-circular orbits and compute the spin-weighted spherical modes of…

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