A nonminimally coupled, conformally extended Einstein-Maxwell theory of pp-waves

Authors

DÜNDAR TEKİN DERELİ
YORGO ŞENİKOĞLU

DOI

10.3906/fiz-2002-18

Abstract

A nonminimal coupling of Weyl curvatures to electromagnetic fields is considered in Brans-Dicke-Maxwell theory. The gravitational field equations are formulated in a Riemannian spacetime where the spacetime torsion is constrained to zero by the method of Lagrange multipliers in the language of exterior differential forms. The significance and ramifications of nonminimal couplings to gravity are examined in a pp-wave spacetime.

Keywords

Classical general relativity, gravitational waves, modified theories of gravity

First Page

273

Last Page

279

Recommended Citation

DERELİ, DÜNDAR TEKİN and ŞENİKOĞLU, YORGO (2020) "A nonminimally coupled, conformally extended Einstein-Maxwell theory of pp-waves," Turkish Journal of Physics: Vol. 44: No. 3, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3906/fiz-2002-18
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/physics/vol44/iss3/4