GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND CAUSALITY

DOI10.1142/S0129055X92000066zbMath0772.53040OpenAlexW2071496227MaRDI QIDQ4021534

Paul E. Ehrlich, Gérard G. Emch

Publication date: 16 January 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129055x92000066

zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupsingularity theoryKilling vector fieldscausal structurevacuum space-timesgravitational plane wavesplane fronted wavescausally continuouscausally simpleastigmatic focusingnull cut locus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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