Piecewise flat gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/7/075005MaRDI QIDQ2999453zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maarten van de Meent

Publication date 13 May 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1991

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Gravitational waves (83C35) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We examine the continuum limit of the piecewise flat locally finite gravity model introduced by 't Hooft. In the linear weak field limit we find the energy--momentum tensor and metric perturbation of an arbitrary configuration of defects. The energy--momentum turns out to be restricted to satisfy certain conditions. The metric perturbation is mostly fixed by the energy--momentum except for its lightlike modes which reproduce linear gravitational waves, despite no such waves being present at the microscopic level.

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