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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

Propagation of weak gravitational waves, when a dynamical four-form is around, has been investigated. Exact, self-consistent solutions corresponding to plane, monochromatic gravitational waves have been studied.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-28 Patrick Das Gupta

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

We study gravitational waves with torsion as exact vacuum solutions of three-dimensional gravity with propagating torsion. The new solutions are a natural generalization of the plane-fronted gravitational waves in general relativity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-16 M. Blagojević , B. Cvetković

Vacuum gravitational fields invariant for a non Abelian Lie algebra generated by two Killing fields whose commutator is light-like are analyzed. It is shown that they represent nonlinear gravitational waves obeying to two nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Canfora , G. Vilasi , P. Vitale

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

Stellar pulsations in rotating relativistic stars are reviewed. Slow rotation approximation is applied to solving the Einstein equations. The rotational effects on the non-axisymmetric oscillations are explicitly shown in the polar and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasufumi Kojima

Teleparallel theory of gravity and its modifications have been studied extensively in literature. However, gravitational waves has not been studied enough in the framework of teleparallelism. In the present study, we discuss gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Habib Abedi , Salvatore Capozziello

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

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

A formalism is introduced which may describe both standard linearized waves and gravitational waves in Isaacson's high-frequency limit. After emphasizing main differences between the two approximation techniques we generalize the Isaacson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiri Podolsky , Otakar Svitek

An effective field theory framework is used to investigate some Lorentz-violating effects on the generation of electromagnetic and gravitational waves, complementing previous work on propagation. Specifically we find solutions to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Quentin G. Bailey , Alexander S. Gard , Nils A. Nilsson , Rui Xu , Lijing Shao

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 give a higher even dimensional extension of vacuum colliding gravitational plane waves with the combinations of collinear and non-collinear polarized four-dimensional metric. The singularity structure of space-time depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Metin Gurses , Emre O. Kahya , Atalay Karasu

Wave propagation of field disturbances is ubiquitous. The electromagnetic and gravitational are cousin theories in which the corresponding waves play a relevant role to understand several related physical. It has been established that small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 W. Barreto , H. P. de Oliveira , E. L. Rodrigues

We discuss time-dependent gravitational fields that "accelerate" free test particles to the speed of light resulting in cosmic double-jet configurations. It turns out that complete gravitational collapse along a spatial axis together with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon , K. Rosquist

A method is given which renders indirect detection of strong gravitational waves possible. This is based on the reflection (collision) of a linearly polarized electromagnetic shock wave from (with) a cross polarized impulsive and shock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mustafa Halilsoy , Ozay Gurtug

Gyratonic plane fronted gravitational waves are exact solutions of Einstein's field equations, which correspond to gravitational waves that carry momentum and angular-momentum. Using the definitions of the Hamiltonian formulation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

We describe impulsive gravitational pp-waves entirely in the distributional picture. Applying Colombeau's nonlinear framework of generalized functions we handle the formally ill-defined products of distributions which enter the geodesic as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Roland Steinbauer

A systematic rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation propagating over cosmological distances has been claimed to be detected by Nodland and Ralston.Taking the finite rotating universe of Oszvath and Sch\"ucking as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mansouri , K. Nozari