Generalized symmetries of impulsive gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/004MaRDI QIDQ4332334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter C. Aichelburg, Herbert Balasin

Publication date 13 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607045

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesimpulsive gravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We generalize previous cite{AiBa2} work on the classification of ($C^{i}nfty$) symmetries of plane-fronted waves with an impulsive profile. Due to the specific form of the profile it is possible to extend the group of normal-form-preserving diffeomorphisms to include non-smooth transformations. This extension entails a richer structure of the symmetry algebra generated by the (non-smooth) Killing vectors.

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• Inversion of a `discontinuous coordinate transformation' in general relativity
• Memory effect, conformal symmetry and gravitational plane waves
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