Gravitational waves in a molecular medium: dispersion, extra polarizations and quantitative estimates

Abstract

We analyze the propagation of gravitational waves in a molecular matter medium: our findings demonstrate that dispersion only is expected, together with the emergence of three extra polarizations, able to induce longitudinal stresses. We also give quantitative estimates of the predicted effects.

arXiv comment5 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.08018