The Bell–Szekeres solution and related solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/17/010MaRDI QIDQ5489746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Barrabès, P. A. Hogan

Publication date 28 September 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0608087

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational waveselectromagnetic wavesEinstein-Maxwell theoryBell-Szekeres solutioncollision of plane homogeneous light-like waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: A novel technique for solving some head-on collisions of plane homogeneous light-like signals in Einstein-Maxwell theory is described. The technique is a by-product of a re-examination of the fundamental Bell-Szekeres solution in this field of study. Extensions of the Bell-Szekeres collision problem to include light-like shells and gravitational waves are described and a family of solutions having geometrical and topological properties in common with the Bell-Szekeres solution is derived.

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