Expanding impulsive gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/9/311zbMATH Open0935.83006arXivgr-qc/9907022OpenAlexW2163135634MaRDI QIDQ4935635FDOQ4935635

Authors: Jiří Podolský, Jerry B. Griffiths 

Publication date: 31 January 2000

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

Abstract: We explicitly demonstrate that the known solutions for expanding impulsive spherical gravitational waves that have been obtained by a "cut and paste" method may be considered to be impulsive limits of the Robinson-Trautman vacuum type N solutions. We extend these results to all the generically distinct subclasses of these solutions in Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds. For these we express the solutions in terms of a continuous metric. Finally, we also extend the class of spherical shock gravitational waves to include a non-zero cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9907022

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zbMATH Keywords

impulsive spherical gravitational wavesRobinson-Trautman vacuum type-\(N\) solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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