Resolving a gravitational wave memory paradox

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1924-2MaRDI QIDQ498902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Garfinkle, István Rácz

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5559

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theorygauge invariant variablesgravitational wave memory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Two different approaches to gravitational perturbation theory appear to give two different answers for the properties of gravitational wave memory. We show that this contradiction is only apparent and the two approaches actually agree.

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