Exact solutions for gravitational waves with cylindrical, spherical and toroidal wavefronts

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/8/014MaRDI QIDQ4894022zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. A. Alekseev, Jerry B. Griffiths

Publication date 10 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/13/8/014

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuitiescurvature singularitieswavefrontsMinkowski backgroundgravitational waves with nonplane wavefronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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