Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2017) 132: 52
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11345-8

Regular Article

Linearized gravity in terms of differential forms

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ömer Halisdemir University, Merkez Kampüs, Bor yolu üzeri, 51240, Niğde, Turkey
² Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Koç University, Rumeli Feneri Yolu, 34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey

^* e-mail: abaykal@ohu.edu.tr

Received: 21 October 2016
Accepted: 3 January 2017
Published online: 30 January 2017

Abstract

A technique to linearize gravitational field equations is developed in which the perturbation metric coefficients are treated as second rank, symmetric, 1-form fields belonging to the Minkowski background spacetime by using the exterior algebra of differential forms.