Kinetic energy and angular momentum of free particles in the gyratonic pp-waves space-times

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AABD4EMaRDI QIDQ4580993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseé W. Maluf, J. F. da Rocha-Neto, Fernando L. Lobo B. Carneiro, Sérgio C. Ulhoa

Publication date 22 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04957

zbMATH Keywords

non-linear gravitational wavesfree particles in gyratonic pp-waves space-timesgeodesics in pp-waves space-timesgyratonic pp-waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Gyratonic pp-waves are exact solutions of Einstein's equations that represent non-linear gravitational waves endowed with angular momentum. We consider gyratonic pp-waves that travel in the $z$ direction and whose time dependence on the variable $u=1oversqrt2(z-t)$ is given by gaussians, so that the waves represent short bursts of gravitational radiation propagating in the $z$ direction. We evaluate numerically the geodesics and velocities of free particles in the space-time of these waves, and find that after the passage of the waves both the kinetic energy and the angular momentum per unit mass of the particles are changed. Therefore there is a transfer of energy and angular momentum between the gravitational field and the free particles, so that the final values of the energy and angular momentum of the free particles may be smaller or larger in magnitude than the initial values.

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