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Gravitational waves in metric-affine gravity theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-01-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive the exact gravitational wave solutions in a general class of quadratic metric-affine gauge gravity models. The Lagrangian includes all possible linear and quadratic invariants constructed from the torsion, nonmetricity and the curvature. The ansatz for the gravitational wave configuration and the properties of the wave solutions are patterned following the corresponding ansatz and the properties of the plane-fronted electromagnetic wave.

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@article{arxiv.2010.14528,
  title  = {Gravitational waves in metric-affine gravity theory},
  author = {Alejandro Jiménez-Cano and Yuri N. Obukhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.14528},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures, no tables. Minor changes. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.05185

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