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

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/8/014zbMATH Open0858.53066OpenAlexW2041146228MaRDI QIDQ4894022FDOQ4894022

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

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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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