Propagation effect of gravitational wave on detector response

Dear Editors,The detection of gravitational waves（GW）in the event GW150914 by the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory（LIGO）[1]opens a new era for the direct detection of GW[2],searching black hole coalescence[3]and‘heavy’black holes with more than25 solar mass[4],test of general relativity[5],understanding the astrophysical environment of black hole formation[6],etc.In one words,

Conformal field theory on the horizon of a BTZ black hole

In a three-dimensional spacetime with ~egative cosmological constant, general relativity can be written as two copies of SO（2,1） Chern-Simons theory. On a manifold with a boundary, the Chern-Simons theory induces a conformal field theory——Wess-Zumino-Witten theory on the boundary. In this paper, it is shown that with suitable boundary conditions for a Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole, the Wess-Zumino-Witten theory can reduce to a chiral massless scalar field on the horizon.

Hamiltonian analysis of 4-dimensional spacetime in Bondi-like coordinates

We discuss tile Hamiltonian formulation of gravity in four-dimensional spacetime under Bondi-like coordinates {v,r,xa,a=2,3}. In Bondi-like coordinates, the three-dimensional hypersurface is a null hypersurface, and the evolution direction is the advanced time v. The internal symmetry group SO（1,3） of the four-dimensional spacetime is decomposed into SO（1,1）, SO（2）, and T^±（2）, whose Lie algebra s0（1,3） is decomposed into s0（1,1）, s0（2）, and t^± （2） correspondingly. The SO（1,1） symmetry is very obvious in this type of decomposition, which is very useful in s0（1,1） BF theory. General relativity can be reformulated as the four-dimensional coframe （eμ^I） and connection （ωμ^IJ） dynamics of gravity based on this type of decomposition in the Bondi-like coordinate system. The coframe consists of two null 1-forms e-, e＋ and two spacelike 1-forms e2, e3. The Palatial action is used. The Hamiltonian analysis is conducted by Dirac＇s methods. The consistency analysis of constraints has been done completely. Among the constraints, there are two scalar constraints and one two-dimensional vector constraint. The torsion-free conditions are acquired from the consistency conditions of the primary constraints about πIJ^μg. The consistency conditions of the primary constraints πIJ^0= 0 can be reformulated as Gauss constraints. The conditions of the Lagrange multipliers have been acquired. The Poisson brackets among the constraints have been calculated. There are 46 constraints including 6 first-class constraints πIJ^0= 0 and 40 second-class constraints. The local physical degrees of freedom is 2. The integrability conditions of Lagrange multipliers no, 10, and eA are Ricci identities. The equations of motion of the canonical variables have also been shown.