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Gravitational waves in the relativistic theory of gravity

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We demonstrate that because of the causality condition, gravitational waves have no unphysical “ghost” states in the relativistic theory of gravity with the graviton having a rest mass.

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  1. Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    S. S. Gershtein & A. A. Logunov

  2. Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Problems of Microphysics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    M. A. Mestvirishvili

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  1. S. S. Gershtein
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 160, No. 2, pp. 270–275, August, 2009.

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Gershtein, S.S., Logunov, A.A. & Mestvirishvili, M.A. Gravitational waves in the relativistic theory of gravity. Theor Math Phys 160, 1096–1100 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-009-0102-7

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