Interferometric Detection of Gravitational Waves:. the Definitive Test for General Relativity

By Christian Corda. 2009

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Even though Einstein's general relativity has achieved great success and passed a lot of experimental tests, it has also shown some shortcomings and flaws which today prompt theorists to ask if it is the definitive theory of gravity. In this essay we show that if advanced projects on the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) improve their sensitivity, allowing us to perform a GW astronomy then accurate angle- and frequency-dependent response functions of interferometers for GWs arising from various theories of gravity, i.e. general relativity and extended theories of gravity, will be the definitive test for general relativity. The papers mentioned in this essay were the world's most-cited in 2007 of the Astroparticle Publication Review of ASPERA with 13 citations.

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f(R) Theories (2010, background): “Finally we briefly mention stochastic gravitational waves produced in the early universe [421, 172, 122, 123, 174, 173, 196, 20].”
A Review of Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Domain Walls (2017, background): “Furthermore, the recent starting of the GW astronomy can provide a distinctive way of testing General Relativity and other theories of gravity [21].”
Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics (2016, background): “Shortly after its centennial in 2015 one of the pillars of GR, the existence of gravitational waves, was grandiosely confirmed by the detection of GW150914 [170] and GW151226 [171] by LIGO (see also [172]).”
Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the solar system (2010, background): “This ultimate test will work because standard GTR admits only two polarizations for GWs, while in all extended theories there exist at least three polarizations states; see Corda (2009) for details.”
A Bird's Eye View of f (R)-Gravity (2009, background): “Finally, it is possible to "tune" the stochastic background of GWs and this occurrence could constitute a further cosmological test capable of confirming or ruling out ETGs once data from interferometers, like VIRGO, LIGO and LISA, will be available (see [128] for a discussion on this topic).”