Photon rockets and the Robinson - Trautman geometries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/026MaRDI QIDQ4881548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio Dain, Osvaldo M. Moreschi, Reinaldo J. Gleiser

Publication date 3 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203064

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational radiationgravitational energyphoton rocket spacetimesRobinson-Trautman geometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We point out the relation between the photon rocket spacetimes and the Robinson Trautman geometries. This allows a discussion of the issues related to the distinction between the gravitational and matter energy radiation that appear in these metrics in a more geometrical way, taking full advantage of their asymptotic properties at null infinity to separate the Weyl and Ricci radiations, and to clearly establish their gravitational energy content. We also give the exact solution for the generalized photon rockets.

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