Gravitational waves in Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmology, material perturbations and cosmological rotation, and the Huygens principle

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA7361zbMATH Open1367.83025arXiv1603.01763OpenAlexW3100459348MaRDI QIDQ5283571FDOQ5283571

Wojciech Kulczycki, Edward Malec

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Abstract: We analyze propagation equations for the polar modes of gravitational waves in cosmological space-times. We prove that polar gravitational waves must perturb the density and non-azimuthal components of the velocity of material medium of the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. Axial gravitational waves can influence only the azimuthal velocity, leading to local cosmological rotation. The whole gravitational dynamics reduces to the single "master equation" that has the same form for polar and axial modes. That allows us to conclude that the status of the Huygens principle is the same for axial and polar gravitational waves. In particular, this principle is valid exactly in radiation spacetimes with the vanishing cosmological constant, and it is broken otherwise.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01763

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyHuygens principlegravitational wavescosmological rotationpolar mode's equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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