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We construct momentum space expansions for the wave functions that solve the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations for tachyons, recognizing that the mass shell for such fields is very different from what we are used to for ordinary (slower than…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-28 Charles Schwartz

A particular class of space-time, with a tachyon field, \phi, and a barotropic fluid constituting the matter content, is considered herein as a model for gravitational collapse. For simplicity, the tachyon potential is assumed to be of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-23 Yaser Tavakoli , João Marto , Amir Hadi Ziaie , Paulo Vargas Moniz

We prove that for spacetimes solving the Einstein-Maxwell (EM) equations, the electromagnetic field contributes at highest order to the nonlinear memory effect of gravitational waves. In [5] D. Christodoulou showed that gravitational waves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Lydia Bieri , PoNing Chen , Shing-Tung Yau

Guided by the Einstein equivalence principle that identifies the phenomenon of gravitation as a manifestation of the dynamics of spacetime in contrast to a localizable force, we review and explore its consequences on formulating a theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Jann Zosso

We argue that massless gravitons in all even dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetimes higher than two admit a linear memory effect arising from their propagation inside the null cone. Assume that gravitational waves (GWs) are being generated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 Yi-Zen Chu

The gravitational mass-shift effect is investigated in the framework of the standard model with the energy cutoff regularization both for stationary and non-stationary backgrounds at the one-loop level. The problem concerning singularity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-21 P. O. Kazinski

We consider the motion of tachyons (faster-than-light particles) in the framework of General Relativity. An important feature is the large contribution of low energy tachyons to the energy-momentum tensor. We also calculate the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Charles Schwartz

In Einstein's general relativity, gravity is mediated by a massless metric field. The extension of general relativity to consistently include a mass for the graviton has profound implications for gravitation and cosmology. Salient features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Lijing Shao , Norbert Wex , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We investigate the gravitational memory effect for linearized perturbations off of Minkowski space in odd spacetime dimensions $d$ by examining the effects of gravitational radiation from classical point particle scattering. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

Modifying the Einstein's gravity at large distance scales is one of the interesting proposals to explain the late time acceleration of the universe. In this paper, we analyse scaling solutions in modified gravity models where the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. A Sen , N. Chandrachani Devi

The non-linearity of the theory of gravity induces a hysteresis effect in both the systems interacting with gravity and in the gravitational field. The effect is usually referred to as the memory effect. In this paper, we explore this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Raihaneh Moti , Ali Shojai

We analyse scale invariant quadratic quantum gravity incorporating non-minimal coupling to a multiplet of scalar fields in a gauge theory, with particular emphasis on the consequences for its interpretation resulting from a transformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Martin B. Einhorn , D. R. Timothy Jones

The gravitational field of a laser pulse of finite lifetime, is investigated in the framework of linearized gravity. Although the effects are very small, they may be of fundamental physical interest. It is shown that the gravitational field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dennis Rätzel , Martin Wilkens , Ralf Menzel

We investigate a generalization of the massless boundary sine-Gordon model with conformal invariance, which has been used to describe an array of D-branes (or rolling tachyon). We consider a similar action whose couplings are replaced with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Kogetsu , S. Teraguchi

We investigate the memory effects associated with the kicks of particles. Recently, the equivalence between the memory effect and soft theorem has been established. By computing the memory effect from the radiation solutions, we explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-10 Yuta Hamada , Sotaro Sugishita

In this note, we discuss the gravitational memory effect in higher derivative and infinite derivative gravity theories and give the detailed relevant calculations whose results were given in our recent works. We show that the memory effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Ercan Kilicarslan

The cosmological effects of the tachyon rolling down to its ground state are discussed by coupling a simple effective field theory for the tachyon field to Einstein gravity. As the tachyon rolls down to the minimum of its potential the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 G. W. Gibbons

`Gravitational memory' refers to the possibility that, in cosmologies with a time-varying gravitational `constant', objects such as black holes may retain a memory of conditions at the time of their birth. We consider this phenomenon in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Diego F Torres , Andrew R Liddle , Franz E Schunck

The conventional gravitational memory effect is a relative displacement in the position of two detectors induced by radiative energy flux. We find a new type of gravitational `spin memory' in which beams on clockwise and counterclockwise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

We find new effects for gravitational waves and memory in asymptotically-flat spacetimes of slow decay. In particular, we derive growing magnetic memory for these general systems. These effects do not arise in spacetimes resulting from data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Lydia Bieri