The collision and snapping of cosmic strings generating spherical impulsive gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/6/306zbMATH Open0981.83050arXivgr-qc/0001049OpenAlexW2027889054MaRDI QIDQ4954050FDOQ4954050

Authors: Jiří Podolský, Jerry B. Griffiths 

Publication date: 8 March 2002

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

Abstract: The Penrose method for constructing spherical impulsive gravitational waves is investigated in detail, including alternative spatial sections and an arbitrary cosmological constant. The resulting waves include those that are generated by a snapping cosmic string. The method is used to construct an explicit exact solution of Einstein's equations describing the collision of two nonaligned cosmic strings in a Minkowski background which snap at their point of collision.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0001049

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zbMATH Keywords

collision of cosmic stringsimpulsive spherical gravitational wavePenrose `cut and paste' methodsnapping cosmic string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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