The initial value problem for colliding gravitational and hydrodynamic waves

DOI10.1063/1.527032zbMath0637.76134OpenAlexW2006888043MaRDI QIDQ3777682

Basilis C. Xanthopoulos

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527032

zbMATH Keywords

Legendre functionsBessel functionscharacteristic initial value problemhydrodynamic wavesinteraction regionRiemann's methodcolliding waveshypersurface orthogonal Killing fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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Cites Work

• On the Nutku—Halil solution for colliding impulsive gravitational waves
• On the collision of impulsive gravitational waves when coupled with fluid motions
• On colliding waves in the Einstein—Maxwell theory

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