Vacuum gravitational fields with a null Killing vector

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-2661-8zbMATH Open1437.83022arXiv1910.00561OpenAlexW3104966906MaRDI QIDQ2295006FDOQ2295006

Authors: G. Dautcourt 

Publication date: 12 February 2020

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

Abstract: Vacuum gravitational fields admitting a light-like Killing field were systematically studied starting around 1960. Besides the already known plane waves, a second class of gravitational wave fields was found. In contrast to plane waves, their wave surfaces were not flat, but had a negative Gaussian curvature. Recently, such solutions found attention again as "twisted gravitational waves". In the paper we review and extend the earlier results. In suitable coordinates, the metric assumes a simple shape. The waves are then determined by a single function that satisfies a Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinates. The "twisted waves" prove to be a special case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00561

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zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsgeneral relativitygravitational wavestwisted waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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