The Memory Effect for Plane Gravitational Waves [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05997


We give an account of the “gravitational memory effect” in the presence of an exact plane wave solution of Einstein’s vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be detected by observing the motion of freely falling particles.

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P. Zhang, C. Duval, G. Gibbons, et. al.
Mon, 24 Apr 17
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Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures