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Unveiling intrinsic spins of propagating waves usually offers people a fundamental understanding of the geometrical and topological properties of waves from classical to quantum aspects. A great variety of research has shown that transverse…

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In general relativity, the motion of an extended body moving in a given spacetime can be described by a particle on a (generally non-geodesic) worldline. In first approximation, this worldline is a geodesic of the underlying spacetime, and…

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The idea of gauge theories of gravity predicts that there should exist not only the massless graviton but also massive particles carrying the gravitational force. We study the cosmology in a quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-17 Katsuki Aoki , Shinji Mukohyama

In a previous Letter, we showed that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Mark Alaverdian , Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Trevor Scheopner , Fei Teng

We have taken a modified version of the Einstein Hilbert action, $ f(R, T^\phi) $ gravity under consideration, where $T^\phi$ is the energy-momentum tensor trace for the scalar field under consideration. The structural behaviour of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We consider a wave packet of a spin-1/2 particle in a gravitational field, the effect of which can be described in terms of a succession of local inertial frames. It is shown that integrating out of the momentum yields a spin mixed state,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Yue Dai , Yu Shi

We consider various mechanisms of modifying the effect of intrinsic curvature in gravity with respect to general relativity. Two primary approaches are studied. First, by considering a Lagrange multiplier or an auxiliary field. Second, by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ido Ben-Dayan , Elena Emtsova

Gauge-invariant twistor variables are found for the massive spinning particle with N-extended local worldline supersymmetry, in spacetime dimensions D=3,4,6. The twistor action is manifestly Lorentz invariant but the anticommuting spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Luca Mezincescu , Alasdair J. Routh , Paul K. Townsend

We explore non-Gaussian features of a massless spin-two field in the Vasiliev theory of higher-spin gravity. The theory contains an infinite tower of interacting gauge fields with increasing spin, and admits four-dimensional asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 D. Anninos , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

We discuss dynamical aspects of gravitational plane waves in Einstein theory with massless scalar fields. The general analytic solution describes colliding gravitational waves with constant polarization, which interact with scalar waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Jorge G. Russo

We derive the gauge-free Hamiltonian structure of an extended kinetic theory, for which the intrinsic spin of the particles is taken into account. Such a semi-classical theory can be of interest for describing, e.g., strongly magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Marklund , P. J. Morrison

In the general relativity theory the basic ingredient to describe gravity is the geometry, which interacts with all forms of matter and energy, and as such, the metric could be interpreted as a true physical quantity. However the metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Mario Novello , Júnior D. Toniato

The direct detection of gravitational waves provides the opportunity to measure fundamental aspects of gravity which have never been directly probed before, including the polarization of gravitational waves. In the context of searches for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-18 Maximiliano Isi , Matthew Pitkin , Alan J. Weinstein

Pure (2+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity is analysed in the Ashtekar formulation, when the spatial manifold is a torus. We have found a set of globally defined observables, forming a closed algebra. This allowed us to solve the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 N. Manojlovic , A. Mikovic

It is shown the antisymmetric part of the metric tensor is the potential for the spin field. Various metricity conditions are discussed and comparisons are made to other theories, including Einstein's. It is shown in the weak field limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-17 Richard T Hammond

In this paper we investigate the manner in which the internal spin angular momentum of a spinor field is encoded in the gravitational field at asymptotic infinity. The inclusion of internal spin requires us to re-analyze our notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Andrew Randono , David Sloan

The stability of binary orbits can significantly shape the gravity wave signal which future Earth-based interferometers hope to detect. The inner most stable circular orbit has been of interest as it marks the transition from the late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Janna Levin , Rachel O'Reilly , E. J. Copeland

In the standard approach to defining a Planck scale where gravity is brought into the quantum domain, the Schwarzschild gravitational radius is set equal to the Compton wavelength. However, ignored thereby are the charge and spin, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

We present a short review of the spin curvatures that arise within the framework of one of the Infeld-van der Waerden formalisms for general relativity. All the spinor symmetries borne by the inner structure of general relativity are thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Clésio E. Mota , Jorge G. Cardoso

In the first paper in this series, we introduced "persistent gravitational wave observables" as a framework for generalizing the gravitational wave memory effect. These observables are nonlocal in time and nonzero in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols