Cylindrical Gravitational Waves in Einstein-Aether Theory

Abstract

Along the lines of the Einstein-Rosen wave equation of General Relativity (GR), we derive a gravitational wave equation with cylindrical symmetry in the Einstein-aether (EA) theory. We show that the gravitational wave in the EA is periodic in time for both the metric functions $\Psi (r,t)$ and $H(r,t)$. However, in GR, $\Psi (r,t)$ is periodic in time, but $H(r,t)$ is semi-periodic in time, having a secular drifting in the wave frequency. The evolution of wave pulses of a given width is entirely different in both theories in the $H(r,t)$ metric function due to this frequency drifting. Another fundamental difference between the two theories is the gravitational wave velocity. While in GR, the waves propagate with the speed of light, in EA, there is no upper limit to the wave velocity, reaching infinity if $c_{13}\to 1$ and zero if $c_{13}\to -\infty$. We also show that energy-momentum pseudotensor and superpotential get contributions from aether in addition to the usual gravitational field part. All these characteristics are observational signatures that differentiate GR and EA.

26 pages, 10 figures. We have corrected the initial conditions for $H(r,t)$ in order to have $\Psi (r,t)$ not equal to $H(r,t)$

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