1996/02/29 by Valerio Faraoni
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as Astrophys.Lett.Commun. 35 (1996) 305 · 7 pages, LaTex, no figures, to be published in Astrophysical Letters and Communications
arxiv created 1996/02/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
It is shown that the amplification of a light beam by gravitational waves in scalar-tensor theories of gravity is a first order effect in the wave amplitudes. In general relativity, instead, the effect is only of second order.