Exact piecewise flat gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/24/245006MaRDI QIDQ3113862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maarten van de Meent

Publication date 25 January 2012

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5380

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We generalize our previous linear result [1] in obtaining gravitational waves from our piecewise flat model for gravity in 3+1 dimensions to exact piecewise flat configurations describing exact planar gravitational waves. We show explicitly how to construct a piecewise flat spacetime that describes an impulsive plane wavefront. From these wavefronts more general plane waves may be constructed.

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