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Non-Einsteinian Interactions and Perturbative Gravitation with Torsion
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The main aim of this thesis is to investigate non-Einsteinian interactions in a scalartensor
theory and a tensor-tensor theory of gravity with torsion. We first explore
perfect fluid and spinning particle dynamics in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity
with scalar field interactions, and derive equations of motion for a charged perfect
fluid both from gauge identities and a variational principle in background nonRiemannian
spacetime (metric compatible connection with torsion), a scalar field
and an electrom(l.gnetic field. For a spinning particle, we use gauge identities with
given source currents to obtain its equations of motion with scalar field interactions,
and solve its equations of motion in two different backgrounds: one is a BransDicke
torsion field and the other is a constant pseudo-Riemannian curvature with
constant scalar field and zero torsion. Moreover, we calculate the precession of a
gyroscope moving along abound orbit in the weak limit of a vacuum Kerr-BransDicke
solution with torsion. In Chapter 4, the equations of motion for massive
spinless particles in a tensor-tensor theory of gravity with torsion are investigated.
We first apply the perturbation scheme to the system of field equations and discover
a perturbed torsion wave solution. Furthermore, we obtain gauge transformations
of perturbed field variables and examine the polarizations of this torsion wave
solution from autoparallel deviation. The longitudinal modes of the torsion wave
polarization has been found. The polarizations (both transverse and longitudinal
modes) of the torsion wave are quite different from the gravitational wave in the
linearized GR.
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