Published September 22, 2011
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Journal article
Polarization modes for strong-field gravitational waves
Creators
- 1. School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington (New Zealand)
Description
Strong-field gravitational plane waves are often represented in either the Rosen or Brinkmann forms. These forms are related by a coordinate transformation, so they should describe essentially the same physics, but the two forms treat polarization states quite differently. Both deal well with linear polarizations, but there is a qualitative difference in the way they deal with circular, elliptic, and more general polarization states. In this article we will describe a general algorithm for constructing arbitrary polarization states in the Rosen form.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/314/1/012073Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 314
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [4 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- Spanish relativity meeting: Gravity as a crossroad in physics
- Acronym
- ERE 2010
- Dates
- 6-10 Sep 2010
- Place
- Granada (Spain)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43085549
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; COORDINATES; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; POLARIZATION; TRANSFORMATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- MATHEMATICAL LOGIC