Singularities of plane gravitational waves in Einstein's general relativity (Q2179665)
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Singularities of plane gravitational waves in Einstein's general relativity (English)
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13 May 2020
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This paper considers the Baldwin, Jeffery and Rosen coordinates for plane wave space-times. It shows where they become singular and that result implies that null infinity does not belong to these space-times. They can therefore not be used to study the properties of gravitational waves at null infinity, including memory effects and soft graviton theorems.
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plane gravitational waves
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curvature singularities
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memory effects
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asymptotical symmetries
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soft gravitons
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