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Resolving a gravitational wave memory paradox

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Two different approaches to gravitational perturbation theory appear to give two different answers for the properties of gravitational wave memory. We show that this contradiction is only apparent and the two approaches actually agree.

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DG was supported by NSF Grant number PHY-1205202 to Oakland University. IR was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP-4.2.4.A/2-11/1-2012-0001 “National Excellence Program.” This research was supported in part by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the government of Canada through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation.

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  1. Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48309, USA

    David Garfinkle

  2. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1120, USA

    David Garfinkle

  3. Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Budapest, 1121, Hungary

    István Rácz

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Garfinkle, D., Rácz, I. Resolving a gravitational wave memory paradox. Gen Relativ Gravit 47, 79 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-015-1924-2

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