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We study stochastic gravitational waves generated in a post-inflationary magnetogenesis scenario with time-dependent gauge couplings during inflation and reheating. In this setup, magnetic anisotropic stress directly sources gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Subhasis Maiti

We continue the analysis of perturbations in vector inflation. The dominant theme of this paper is the long wavelength limit of perturbations in small fields inflation and the controversial issue of its linear stability. We explain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Alexey Golovnev

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 investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric distribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

We study the perturbations up to the 2nd-order for a power-law inflation driven by a scalar field in synchronous coordinates. We present the 1st-order solutions, and analytically solve the 2nd-order perturbed Einstein equation and scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Bo Wang , Yang Zhang

We discuss the evolution of gravitational waves in a brane-world cosmology embedded in five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. We show that during slow-roll inflation, modelled as a period of quasi-de Sitter expansion on the brane, there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 David Langlois , Roy Maartens , David Wands

We consider the 3-pt function (i.e. the bispectrum or non-Gaussianity) for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves. We estimate the amplitude of this signal for the primordial inflationary background, gravitational waves generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Peter Adshead , Eugene A. Lim

Primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation lead to the B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background and a stochastic gravitational wave background in the Universe. We will explore the current constraint on the tilt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Jun Li , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

We study the evolution of cosmological perturbations on large scales, up to second order, for a perfect fluid with generic equation of state. Taking advantage of super-horizon conservation laws, it is possible to follow the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We argue that gravitational wave contribution to the cosmic microwave background anisotropy at angular scale $\sim 10^0$ may exceed 50% for some models of hybrid inflation producing standard cosmology with the density perturbation slope $n…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Lukash , E. V. Mikheeva

The generation of gravitational waves by laser accelerated relativistic ions is investigated. The piston and light sail models of laser plasma acceleration are considered and analytical expressions for space-time metric perturbation are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Evgeny Gelfer , Hedvika Kadlecová , Ondřej Klimo , Stefan Weber , Georg Korn

We construct a single-field model of inflation that achieves remarkable agreement with Planck and BICEP/Keck cosmological observations. The model, via the presence of an ultra-slow-roll phase, generates a sizable scalar-induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Lorenzo Frosina , Alfredo Urbano

We investigate the production of gravitational waves during preheating after inflation in the common case of field potentials that are asymmetric around the minimum. In particular, we study the impact of oscillons, comparatively long lived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-13 Stefan Antusch , Francesco Cefala , Stefano Orani

In this paper, we investigate gravitational waves beyond the linear approximation, focusing on second-order contributions sourced by linearized waves in the transverse-traceless (TT) gauge. A general spacetime metric is constructed, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 M. A. Misyura

Compared to primordial perturbations on large scales, roughly larger than $1$ megaparsec, those on smaller scales are not severely constrained. We revisit the issue of probing small-scale primordial perturbations using gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Keisuke Inomata , Tomohiro Nakama

In modified gravity theories, the gravitational waves propagation are presented in nonstandard ways. We consider a friction term different from GR and constrain the modified gravitational waves propagation from observations. The modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Jun Li

In this paper we study gravitational wave perturbations in a cosmological setting of bigravity which can reproduce the {\Lambda}CDM background and large scale structure. We show that in general gravitational wave perturbations are unstable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer , Pietro Guarato , Mariele Motta

A gravitational wave must be nonlinear to be able to transport its own source, that is, energy and momentum. A physical gravitational wave, therefore, cannot be represented by a solution to a linear wave equation. Relying on this property,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , Roldao da Rocha , K. H. Vu

Starting with the Lagrangian formulation of General Relativity, we will conduct an investigation into the production of spacetime waves, due to a geometric boundary term of a closed extended manifold, within the tensor and scalar sectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-24 Rafael Hernández-Jiménez , Claudia Moreno