Collision of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves in a Minkowski background: solution of the characteristic initial value problem

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/23/021MaRDI QIDQ4659409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. A. Alekseev, Jerry B. Griffiths

Publication date 21 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410047, https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Collision_of_plane_gravitational_and_electromagnetic_waves_in_a_Minkowski_background_solution_of_the_characteristic_initial_value_problem/9383738

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We consider the collisions of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves with distinct wavefronts and of arbitrary polarizations in a Minkowski background. We first present a new, completely geometric formulation of the characteristic initial value problem for solutions in the wave interaction region for which initial data are those associated with the approaching waves. We present also a general approach to the solution of this problem which enables us in principle to construct solutions in terms of the specified initial data. This is achieved by re-formulating the nonlinear dynamical equations for waves in terms of an associated linear problem on the spectral plane. A system of linear integral ``evolution equations which solve this spectral problem for specified initial data is constructed. It is then demonstrated explicitly how various colliding plane wave space-times can be constructed from given characteristic initial data.

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