Traceless-transverse gauge vs traceless-transverse part

transverse-traceless (TT) gauge. We then discuss the motion of test particles in the presence of a gravitational wave and their polarization. The method of Green’s functions is applied to obtain the solutions to the linearized field equations in presence of a nonrelativistic, isolated source. ∗Mehta Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi In Hobson et al (2006) pg514 they write the formula for the flux in the traceless-transverse gauge: $$ ewcommand{\p}[2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}} ewcommand Abstract. We have computed the number of polarization modes of gravitational waves propagating in the Minkowski background in gravity. These are three of two from transverse-traceless tensor modes and one from a massive trace mode, which confirms the results found in the literature. turbation, and show that a coordinate system (known as the Transverse– Traceless gauge) can be chosen in which its 16 components reduce to only 2 1 Classical and Quantum Gravity The transverse-traceless spin-2 gravitational wave cannot be a standalone observable because it is acausal Yi-Zen Chu1,2 and Yen-Wei Liu 1,3 1 Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli 32001, The transverse components are not changed by a gauge transformation, which implies that the traceless condition must be automatically met. We analyze how this comes about in the calculation of the waves in an explicit example, a circular binary orbit of equal mass points.

An Introduction to General Relativity, Gravitational Waves

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Aug 28, 2017 · Somewhat surprisingly, in many of the widely used monographs and review articles the term Transverse-Traceless modes of linearized gravitational waves is used to denote two entirely different notions. These treatments generally begin with a decomposition of the metric perturbation that is local in the momentum space (and hence non-local in physical space), and denote the resulting transverse

An Introduction to General Relativity, Gravitational Waves