Plane waves in metric-affine gravity

2006/01/18 by Yuri N. Obukhov
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Affine plane (incidence geometry) #Affine transformation #Ansatz #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Engineering #Geometry #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Metric (unit) #Physics #Plane (geometry) #Pure mathematics #Quadratic equation #Torsion (gastropod) #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.024025

published as Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 024025 · 18 pages, revtex, no figures

arxiv created 2006/01/18 · openalex publication_date 2006/01/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We describe plane-fronted waves in the Yang-Mills type quadratic metric-affine theory of gravity. The torsion and the nonmetricity are both nontrivial, and they do not belong to the triplet ansatz.

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