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These lectures address the planar gravitational wave solutions of general relativity in empty space-time, and analyze the motion of test particles in the gravitational wave field. Next we consider related solutions of the Einstein equations for the gravitational field accompanied by long-range wave fields of scalar, spinor and vector type, corresponding to massless particles of spin s = (0,1/2,1). The motion of test masses in the combined gravitational and scalar-, spinor- or vector wave fields is discussed.
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van Holten, J.W. (2000). Gravitational waves and massless particle fields. In: Kowalski-Glikman, J. (eds) Towards Quantum Gravity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46634-7_13
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