Particle motion in circularly polarized vacuum pp waves

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC43D2zbMATH Open1484.83021arXiv2108.00838OpenAlexW3215828324MaRDI QIDQ5023554FDOQ5023554

Authors: Pengming Zhang, Mahmut Elbistan, Peter A. Horváthy 

Publication date: 24 January 2022

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

Abstract: Bialynicki-Birula and Charzynski argued that a gravitational wave emitted during the merger of a black hole binary may be approximated by a circularly polarized wave which may in turn trap particles [1]. In this paper we consider particle motion in a class of gravitational waves which includes, besides circularly polarized periodic waves (CPP) [2], also the one proposed by Lukash [3] to study anisotropic cosmological models. Both waves have a 7-parameter conformal symmetry which contains, in addition to the generic 5-parameter (broken) Carroll group, also a 6th isometry. The Lukash spacetime can be transformed by a conformal rescaling of time to a perturbed CPP problem. Bounded geodesics, found both analytically and numerically, arise when the Lukash wave is of Bianchi type VI. Their symmetries can also be derived from the Lukash-CPP relation. Particle trapping is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00838

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zbMATH Keywords

classical general relativitygravitational wavesLukash spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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