Published September 22, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Polarization modes for strong-field gravitational waves

  • 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/10.1088/1742-6596/314/1/012073

Additional details

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