Modal series expansions for plane gravitational waves

DOI10.1134/S0202289316030026zbMATH Open1353.83012arXiv1705.07620MaRDI QIDQ344005FDOQ344005

L. Acedo

Publication date: 22 November 2016

Published in: Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Propagation of gravitational disturbances at the speed of light is one of the key predictions of the General Theory of Relativity. This result is now backed indirectly by the observations of the behaviour of the ephemeris of binary pulsar systems. These new results have in- creased the interest in the mathematical theory of gravitational waves in the last decades and several mathematical approaches have been developed for a better understanding of the solutions. In this paper we develop a modal series expansion technique in which solutions can be built for plane waves from a seed integrable function. The convergence of these series is proven by the Raabe- Duhamel criteria and we show that these solutions are characterized by a well-defined and finite curvature tensor and also a finite energy content.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07620

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zbMATH Keywords

series expansionsbinary pulsar systemsfinite energy contentplane gravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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