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Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

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Einstein’s theory of GR is known for its mathematical elegance, but the theory also acquired great success through its agreement with experiments.

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    The designations ‘massive gravity’ and ‘massive graviton’ originate from Blanchet et al. [43] where only the effect of a modified dispersion relation, or a wavelength dependent propagation speed has been taken into account. While it is attractive to ascribe such a modification to a graviton mass, a modification of the dispersion relation can be a more general effect, and moreover, endowing the graviton with a mass introduces additional deviations from GR than a mere modified dispersion relation. See e.g. the original work by Van Dam and Veltman [18] and the recent work by Rham et al. [19] for a thorough discussion of the issues related to massive gravity models.

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Li, T.G.F. (2015). Introduction. In: Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19273-4_6

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