An interpretation of Robinson Trautman type N solutions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/302zbMATH Open1021.83011arXivgr-qc/0208022OpenAlexW2072077265MaRDI QIDQ4789693FDOQ4789693

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Publication date: 13 May 2003

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

Abstract: The Robinson-Trautman type N solutions, which describe expanding gravitational waves, are investigated for all possible values of the cosmological constant Lambda and the curvature parameter epsilon. The wave surfaces are always (hemi-)spherical, with successive surfaces displaced in a way which depends on epsilon. Explicit sandwich waves of this class are studied in Minkowski, de Sitter or anti-de Sitter backgrounds. A particular family of such solutions which can be used to represent snapping or decaying cosmic strings is considered in detail, and its singularity and global structure is presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208022

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational waveRobinson-Trautmann solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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