Abstract
Memory of gravitational waves in asymptotically-flat spacetimes that are solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations is of purely electric parity, no magnetic parity memory can occur. We show this by investigating what happens for various classes of asymptotically-flat Einstein-vacuum-spacetimes. This is understood within such spacetimes that have been shown to be stable in the fully nonlinear regime under perturbations away from Minkwoski space. We also lay open the structures at the transition from spacetimes that have a well-defined memory to those for which the memory formula cannot be retrieved due to their specific asymptotic behavior and the divergence of crucial integrals. Moreover, for the Einstein equations coupled to other fields with a common stress-energy as well as in the cosmological setting, we find that gravitational memory is of electric parity only.
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