Geodesics in nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with . I

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Geodesics in nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with \(\Lambda\). I



Abstract: We investigate the geodesics in the entire class of nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves propagating in an (anti-)de Sitter universe using the distributional form of the metric. Employing a 5-dimensional embedding formalism and a general regularisation technique we prove existence and uniqueness of geodesics crossing the wave impulse leading to a completeness result. We also derive the explicit form of the geodesics thereby confirming previous results derived in a heuristic approach.












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