Plane-fronted torsion waves in a gravitational gauge theory with a quadratic Lagrangian

15 October 1983

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 28 (8) , 2094-2095
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.28.2094

Abstract

We find plane-fronted torsion waves propagating in the metrically flat spacetime in a gravitational gauge theory formulated in a Riemann-Cartan spacetime with Lagrangian

R_{ij} R^{ij} - \frac{1}{3} R^{2}

Keywords

TORSION WAVES
FRONTED TORSION
WAVES PROPAGATING
QUADRATIC LAGRANGIAN
METRICALLY FLAT
FLAT SPACETIME
FIND PLANE

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