What does the Letelier–Gal'tsov metric describe?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/N02MaRDI QIDQ3376158zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 20 March 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0502090

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Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Recently the structure of the Letelier-Gal'tsov spacetime has become a matter of some controversy. I show that the metric proposed in cite{letgal} is defined only on a dense subset of the whole manifold. In the case when it can be defined on the remainder by continuity, the resulting spacetime corresponds to a system of parallel cosmic strings at rest w.r.t. each other.

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