A Remarkable Property of Plane Waves in General Relativity

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DOI10.1103/RevModPhys.37.215zbMath0125.21101WikidataQ21709616 ScholiaQ21709616MaRDI QIDQ5330136

Roger Penrose

Publication date: 1965

Published in: Reviews of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)


83C35: Gravitational waves


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