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Symmetric teleparallel gravity (STG) offers an interesting avenue to formulate a theory of gravitation that relies neither on curvature nor torsion but only on non-metricity Q. Given the growing number of observations of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Ismail Soudi , Gabriel Farrugia , Viktor Gakis , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Gravitational radiation in plane-symmetric space-times can be encoded in a complex potential, satisfying a non-linear wave equation. An effective energy tensor for the radiation is given, taking a scalar-field form in terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hayward

The energy of gravitational waves is a fundamental problem in gravity theory. The existing descriptions for the energy of gravitational waves, such as the well-known Isaacson energy-momentum tensor, suffer from several defects. Due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-23 Rong-Gen Cai , Xing-Yu Yang , Long Zhao

The energy-momentum for a gravitating system can be considered by the tetard teleparalle gauge current in orthonormal frames. Whereas the Einstein pseudotensor used holonomic frames. Tetrad expression itself gives a better result for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Lau Loi So

A non-linear gravitational wave imparts gravitational acceleration to all particles that are hit by the wave. We evaluate this acceleration for particles in the pp-wave space-times, and integrate it numerically along the geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-21 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto , S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro

In the framework of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity it is possible to establish the energy-momentum tensor of the gravitational field. This tensor has the following essential features: (1) it is identified directly in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Maluf

We consider the action of exact plane gravitational waves, or pp-waves, on free particles. The analysis is carried out by investigating the variations of the geodesic trajectories of the particles, before and after the passage of the wave.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-25 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto , S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro

Due to its underlying gauge structure, teleparallel gravity achieves a separation between inertial and gravitational effects. It can, in consequence, describe the isolated gravitational interaction without resorting to the equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Aldrovandi , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

In the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, we show that the energy-momentum density for the gravitational field can be described by a true spacetime tensor. It is also invariant under local (gauge) translations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. C. de Andrade , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira

The Hamiltonian formulation of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity is considered. Definitions of energy, momentum and angular momentum of the gravitational field arise from the integral form of the constraint equations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto , T. M. L. Toribio , K. H. Castello-Branco

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

We derive the gravitational waves for $f\left(T, B\right)$ gravity, an extension of teleparallel gravity containing the torsion scalar $T$ and the boundary term $B$, and demonstrate that it is equivalent to $f(R)$ gravity. Gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Loredana Caso

The paper deals with the definition of gravitational energy in conformal teleparallel gravity. The total energy is defined by means of the field equations which allow a local conservation law. Then such an expression is analyzed for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 J. G. da Silva , S. C. Ulhoa

The energy and momentum for different cosmological models using various prescriptions are evaluated. In particular, we have focused our attention on the energy and momentum for gravitational waves and discuss the results. It is concluded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sharif

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

Using the fact that teleparallel gravity allows a separation between gravitation and inertia, explicit expressions for the gravitational and the inertial energy-momentum densities are obtained. It is shown that, like all other fields of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-14 R. Aldrovandi , Tiago Gribl Lucas , J. G. Pereira

By making use of the weak gravitational field approximation, we obtain a linearized solution of the gravitational vacuum field equation in an anisotropic spacetime. The plane-wave solution and dispersion relation of gravitational wave is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-03 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

General relativity can be presented in terms of other geometries besides Riemannian. In particular, teleparallel geometry (i.e., curvature vanishes) has some advantages, especially concerning energy-momentum localization and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Nester , H-J Yo

A quantum cosmology in teleparallel gravity is presented in this article. Teleparallel gravity is used to perform such an analysis once in General Relativity (GR) the concept of gravitational energy is misleading preventing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 A. S. Fernandes , S. C. Ulhoa , R. G. G. Amorim

An axiomatization of the so-called Teleparallel Equivalent to General Relativity is presented. A set of formal and semantic postulates are elaborated from where the physical meaning of various key concepts of the theory are clarified. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Luciano Combi , Gustavo E. Romero