Linearized gravity and gauge conditions

Aksteiner, Steffen; Andersson, Lars

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/28/6/065001

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Linearized gravity and gauge conditions

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Andersson, Lars
Geometric Analysis and Gravitation, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Aksteiner, S., & Andersson, L. (2011). Linearized gravity and gauge conditions. Classical quantum gravity, 28(6): 065001. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/28/6/065001.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-08BB-8

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In this paper we consider the field equations for linearized gravity and other integer spin fields on the Kerr spacetime, and more generally on spacetimes of Petrov type D. We give a derivation, using the GHP formalism, of decoupled field equations for the linearized Weyl scalars for all spin weights and identify the gauge source functions occuring in these. For the spin weight 0 Weyl scalar, imposing a generalized harmonic coordinate gauge yields a generalization of the Regge-Wheeler equation. Specializing to the Schwarzschild case, we derive the gauge invariant Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equation directly from the equation for the spin 0 scalar.