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The memory effect is known to introduce a permanent displacement in the gravitational wave (GW) detectors after the passage of a GW signal. While the linear memory adheres to the source properties, the non-linear memory is a secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Samik Dutta , Ankur Chhabra , Aritra Banerjee , Sajal Mukherjee , Subhendra Mohanty

Gravitational-wave memory effects are lasting changes in the strain and its time integrals. They can be computed in asymptotically flat spacetimes using the conservation and evolution equations in the Bondi-Sachs framework. Modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

This article demonstrates that additionally to the well-known velocity memory effect, a vacuum gravitational plane wave can also induce a displacement memory on a couple of test particles. A complete classification of the conditions under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Jibril Ben Achour , Jean-Philippe Uzan

After recalling the differential geometry of non-metric connections in the formalism of differential forms, we introduce the idea of a Non-Metricity (NM) connection, whose connection $1$--forms coincides with the non-metricity $1$--forms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-04 Igor Mol

Balance flux laws of asymptotic symmetries in general relativity provide fully non-perturbative constraint equations on gravitational strain. They have proven useful for constructing numerical gravitational waveforms and for characterizing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 David Maibach , Jann Zosso

We study the variational principle over an Hilbert-Einstein like action for an extended geometry taking into account torsion and non-metricity. By extending the semi-Riemannian geometry, we obtain an effective energy-momentum tensor which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Jesús Martín Romero , Mauricio Bellini , José Edgar Madriz Aguilar

We address the gravitation and inertia in the framework of 'general gauge principle', which accounts for 'gravitation gauge group' generated by hidden local internal symmetry implemented on the flat space. We connect this group to nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Gagik Ter-Kazarian

Starting with a field theoretic approach in Minkowski space, the gravitational energy momentum tensor is derived from the Einstein equations in a straightforward manner. This allows to present them as {\it acceleration tensor} = const.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Gravitational memory, which describes the permanent shift in the strain after the passage of gravitational waves, is directly related to Weinberg's soft graviton theorems and the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry group of asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

We give a critical analysis of the conceptual foundations of special relativity. We formulate a simple operational criterion for distinguishing between noninertial and inertial frames which is introduced prior to geometry. We associate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Andrew E. Chubykalo , Augusto Espinoza , B. P. Kosyakov

This article aims at comparing gravitational wave memory effect in a Schwarzschild spacetime with that of other compact objects with static and spherically symmetric spacetime, with the purpose of proposing a procedure for differentiating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Soumya Bhattacharya , Shramana Ghosh

We study the motion of a gyroscope located far away from an isolated gravitational source in an asymptotically flat spacetime. As seen from a local frame tied to distant stars, the gyroscope precesses when gravitational waves cross its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Ali Seraj , Blagoje Oblak

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity, which has not been detected yet. Amounts of memory events can form a stochastic gravitational wave memory background. Here we find that memory background can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

The memory effect in gravitational wave (GW) signals is the phenomenon, wherein the relative position of two inertial GW detectors undergoes a permanent displacement owing to the passage of GWs through them. Measurement of the memory signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Arpan Hait , Subhendra Mohanty , Suraj Prakash

The concept of freely falling frames suggests that gravity exhibits a local Lorentz gauge symmetry and requires a background Minkowski reference frame. The gauge vector fields of a Yang-Mills-type theory can be constructed from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Hans Christian Öttinger

The post-Minkowskian limit and gravitational wave solutions for general fourth-order gravity theories are discussed. Specifically, we consider a Lagrangian with a generic function of curvature invariants $f(R,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-28 A. Stabile , S. Capozziello

Suggested theory involves a drastic revision of a role of local internal symmetries in physical concept of curved geometry. Under the reflection of fields and their dynamics from Minkowski to Riemannian space a standard gauge principle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. T. Ter-Kazarian

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

Gravitational memory, a residual change, arises after a finite gravitational wave pulse interacts with free masses. We calculate the memory effect in massive gravity as a function of the graviton mass $(m_g)$ and show that it is discretely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-07 Ercan Kilicarslan , Bayram Tekin

The Standard Model of particle physics describes electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, which are three of the four known fundamental forces of nature. The unification of the fourth interaction, gravity, with the Standard Model has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki