COLLISION OF HIGH FREQUENCY PLANE GRAVITATIONAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

DOI10.1142/S0218271803003748MaRDI QIDQ5700012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 27 October 2005

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307076

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic wavesgeneral relativityGravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We study the head-on collision of linearly polarized, high frequency plane gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts in the Einstein-Maxwell theory. The post-collision space-times are obtained by solving the vacuum Einstein-Maxwell field equations in the geometrical optics approximation. The head-on collisions of all possible pairs of these systems of waves is described and the results are then generalised to non-linearly polarized waves which exhibit the maximum two degrees of freedom of polarization.

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