A new exact solution for colliding gravitational plane waves

DOI10.1007/BF00767279zbMath0611.53065MaRDI QIDQ1087164

B. George

Publication date: 1987

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

plane waves; singularity; gravitational waves; vacuum Einstein equations; Newman- Penrose formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences