Abstract
We study the motion of free masses subject to the influence of standing gravitational waves in the polarized Gowdy cosmology with a three-torus topology. We show that antinodes attract freely falling particles and we trace the velocity memory effect.
1 More- Received 29 October 2020
- Accepted 22 December 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.024011
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