On certain twisting type- N solutions of Einstein equations with pure radiation energy momentum tensor and nonvanishing shear

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/23/310MaRDI QIDQ4797236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. F. Plebański, Krzysztof Rózga

Publication date 17 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/19/23/310

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically stationary observerscongruence of principal null geodesicscoordinate transformationscurvature's singularitygeodesic deviation vectorgeometrically distinguished set of freely falling observersgravitational waveincoherent electromagnetic radiationmetric tensornonvanishing twist and shearperturbation of the flat backgroundsuperposition principle for nonlinear type-\(N\) gravitonstransversality of the gravitational fieldtwisting type-\(N\) solutions of Einstein equations with pure radiation energy-momentum tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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