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The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

We constrain the parameter space of the Bumblebee model in a cosmological background and then investigate the properties of gravitational waves within the constrained parameter space. Our analysis reveals seven perturbative degrees of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the polarization modes of gravitational waves in general Einstein-vector theory with an arbitrary constant background vector field under a Minkowski background. We compare these polarization modes with those of other vector-tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

We analyze the propagation and polarization properties of high-frequency gravitational waves in Einstein-\AE ther theory on vorticity-free and slowly-varying backgrounds at both leading and next-to-leading orders within the geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Shinji Mukohyama , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate the production and detection of gravitational waves (GWs) within the framework of Gravitational Quantum Field Theory (GQFT). In this theory, GWs exhibit five propagating modes: one scalar, two vector, and two tensor modes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Yuan-Kun Gao , Da Huang , Yue-Liang Wu

We investigate the gravitational wave polarization modes and stability in Weyl geometry gravity within a Minkowski background. Our results indicate that the tensor sector consists of two standard modes propagating at the speed of light.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Yu-Zhi Fan , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu

In the framework of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs), first produced by remote compact astrophysical sources and then propagating through the flat homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Jared Fier , Henry Han , Bowen Li , Kai Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang

We study the stability under linear perturbations of a class of static solutions of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in $D=n+2$ dimensions with spatial slices of the form $\Sigma_{\k}^n \times {\mathbb R}^+$, $\Sigma_{\k}^n$ an $n-$manifold of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Gustavo Dotti

We investigate the cosmological background evolution and perturbations in a general class of spatially covariant theories of gravity, which propagates two tensor modes and one scalar mode. We show that the structure of the theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Tomohiro Fujita , Xian Gao , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

In order to examine the gravitational waves emitted from the neutron stars in the tensor-vector-scalar (TeVeS) theory, we derive the perturbation equations for relativistic stars, where for simplicity we omit the perturbations of vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Hajime Sotani

We analyse cosmological perturbations around a homogeneous and isotropic background for scalar-tensor, vector-tensor and bimetric theories of gravity. Building on previous results, we propose a unified view of the effective parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Macarena Lagos , Emilio Bellini , Johannes Noller , Pedro G. Ferreira , Tessa Baker

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We investigate the evolution of cosmological perturbations in models of dark energy described by a time-like unit normalized vector field specified by a general function $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{K})$, so-called Generalized Einstein-Aether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Richard A. Battye , Francesco Pace , Damien Trinh

We present a detailed study of the viability of general vector-tensor theories of gravity in the presence of an arbitrary temporal background vector field. We find that there are six different classes of theories which are indistinguishable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful, theory-independent probe of the dynamical structure of spacetime and the cosmological background. We study linearized GW propagation in k-essence cosmology, where a non-canonical scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Sougata Bhunia , Eduardo Guendelman , Debashis Gangopadhyay , Ramón Herrera , Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Goutam Manna

Gravitational wave (GW) oscillations occur whenever there are additional tensor modes interacting with the perturbations of the metric coupled to matter. These extra modes can arise from new spin-2 fields (as in e.g. bigravity theories) or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Jose María Ezquiaga , Lavinia Heisenberg

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework for gravitational wave (GW) propagation and their \textbf{nonlinear backreaction} in $f(R, G)$ modified gravity. By developing a scalar-tensor formulation with two auxiliary fields, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Farzad Milani

We discuss the gravitational waves (GW) in the context of vector inflation. We derive the action for tensor perturbations and find that tachyonic instabilities are present in most (but not all) of the inflationary models with large fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Alexey Golovnev , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Vitaly Vanchurin

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) is an invaluable new tool to probe gravity and the nature of cosmic acceleration. A large class of scalar-tensor theories predict that GWs propagate with velocity different than the speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Dario Bettoni , Jose María Ezquiaga , Kurt Hinterbichler , Miguel Zumalacárregui
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