Linear perturbations of plane polarized plane waves. I. The absence of purely incoming perturbations

DOI10.1063/1.528493zbMath0696.53045MaRDI QIDQ3472808

Basilis C. Xanthopoulos

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528493

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic waves; gravitational waves; normal modes; linearized perturbations; Newman-Penrose equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

83C35: Gravitational waves

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