An effective formalism for testing extensions to general relativity with gravitational waves

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)122zbMath1382.83086arXiv1704.01590MaRDI QIDQ1705994

Leonardo Senatore, Victor Gorbenko, Solomon Endlich, Junwu Huang

Publication date: 19 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01590

zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravityeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Black holes (83C57) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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Uses Software

• Invar
• NP
• NPspinor
• xTensor

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