paper

Light amplification by gravitational waves in scalar-tensor theories of gravity

arXiv:astro-ph/9602154

Abstract

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.

7 pages, LaTex, no figures, to be published in Astrophysical Letters and Communications