Geodesics in nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with . I

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115002zbMATH Open1342.83064arXiv1509.04914OpenAlexW3102826648MaRDI QIDQ5741270FDOQ5741270

Authors: C. Sämann, Roland Steinbauer, Alexander Lecke, Jiří Podolský 

Publication date: 22 July 2016

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04914

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicslow regularityimpulsive gravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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