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In this paper, we study the gravitational memory effect in pp-wave spacetimes due to the passage of a pulse having the form of a ramp profile through this spacetime. We have analyzed the effect of this pulse on the evolution of nearby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha

Any non-trivial scattering with any massless fields in four spacetime dimensions will generically produce an "out" state with memory which gives rise to infrared divergences in the standard $S$-matrix. To obtain an infrared-finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-09 Kartik Prabhu , Gautam Satishchandran

Gravitational-wave memory is a non-linear effect predicted by general relativity that remains undetected. We apply a Bayesian analysis framework to search for gravitational-wave memory using binary black hole mergers in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Shun Yin Cheung , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

An attempt to evade the strict uniqueness of consistent interactions involving spin-2 particles is made by modifying the Noether procedure from the outset. A vector field is introduced, coupled to a graviton already at the level of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Carlo Marzo

Gravitational-wave memory refers to the permanent displacement of the test masses in an idealized (freely-falling) gravitational-wave interferometer. Inspiraling binaries produce a particularly interesting form of memory--the Christodoulou…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Marc Favata

We discuss some effects induced by quantum field fluctuations on mass, inertia and gravitation. Recalling the problem raised by vacuum field fluctuations with respect to inertia and gravitation, we show that vacuum energy differences, such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

As an alternative to the LCDM concordance model, Scalar-Tensor-Vector Modified Gravity (MOG) theory reproduces key cosmological observations without postulating the presence of an exotic dark matter component. MOG is a field theory based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Viktor T. Toth

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

The generic form of spacetime dynamics as a classical gauge field theory has recently been derived, based on only the action principle and on the Principle of General Relativity. It was thus shown that Einstein's General Relativity is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-28 J. Struckmeier , J. Muench , P. Liebrich , M. Hanauske , J. Kirsch , D. Vasak , L. Satarov , H. Stoecker

Symmetries play an interesting role in cosmology. They are useful in characterizing the cosmological perturbations generated during inflation and lead to consistency relations involving the soft limit of the statistical correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-06 Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

Following the recent studies of the trickiness in spin and orbital angular momentum of the vector gauge fields, we perform here a parallel analysis for the tensor gauge field, which has certain relation to gravitation. Similarly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-01 Xiang-Song Chen , Ben-Chao Zhu , Niall Ó Murchadha

We use Effective Field Theory techniques to derive the quadrupole-quadrupole part of the gravitational wave, obtaining a waveform in agreement with previous results found within the multipolar-post-Minkowskian method. In particular we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Alan Müller , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

We investigate gravitational radiation memory and its corresponding effect on the asymptotic symmetries of a body whose exterior is a boosted Schwarzschild spacetime. First, in the context of linearized theory, we consider such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-22 Thomas Mädler , Jeffrey Winicour

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 develop a fully gauge invariant analysis of gravitational wave polarizations in metric f(R) gravity with a particular focus on the modified Starobinsky model, whose constant curvature solution provides a natural deSitter background for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Ramesh Radhakrishnan , David McNutt , Delaram Mirfendereski , Alejandro Pinero , Eric Davis , William Julius , Gerald Cleaver

General relativity explains gravitational radiation from binary black hole or neutron star mergers, from core-collapse supernovae and even from the inflation period in cosmology. These waves exhibit a unique effect called memory or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

Gravitational shockwaves are simple exact solutions of Einstein equations representing the fields of ultrarelativistic sources and idealized gravitational waves (shocks). Historically, much work has focused on shockwaves in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Finnian Gray , David Kubiznak , Taillte May , Sydney Timmerman , Erickson Tjoa

The gravitational memory effect and its electromagnetic (EM) analog are potential probes in the strong gravity regime. In the literature, this effect is derived for static observers at asymptotic infinity. While this is a physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

We investigate some consequences of a specific non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor on the physics of certain cosmic string configurations. This non-conservation is induced by a new gravitational theory recently introduced as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-26 E. A. F. Bragança , Thiago R. P. Caramês , Júlio C. Fabris , Antônio de Pádua Santos

Consider compact objects --such as neutron star or black hole binaries-- in \emph{full, non-linear} general relativity. In the case with zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$, the gravitational radiation emitted by such systems is described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Sina Bahrami