Inertial frame rotation induced by rotating gravitational waves

Details Inertial frame rotation induced by rotating gravitational waves Inertial frame rotation induced by rotating gravitational waves

2008-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3077v2

Class. Quantum Grav. 25 (2008) 165018

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Scheduled to appear in Class. and Quantum Grav. July 2008, "inertial" added in title

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/25/16/165018

We calculate the rotation of the inertial frames within an almost flat cylindrical region surrounded by a pulse of non-axially-symmetric gravitational waves that rotate about the axis of our cylindrical polar coordinates. Our spacetime has only one Killing vector. It is along the z-axis and hypersurface orthogonal. We solve the Einstein equations to first order in the wave amplitude and superpose such linearized solutions to form a wave pulse. We then solve the relevant Einstein equation to second order in the amplitude to find the rotation of inertial frames produced by the pulse. The rotation is without time delay. The influence of gravitational wave angular momentum on the inertial frame demonstrates that Mach's principle can not be expressed in terms of the influence of the stress-energy-momentum tensor alone but must involve also influences of gravitational wave energy and angular momentum.

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