Strongly focused gravitational waves

DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1314-XMaRDI QIDQ644757zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Reiterer, E. Trubowitz

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3812

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Gravitational waves (83C35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: This paper contains a new proof of the formation of trapped spheres, in vacuum spacetimes, by the focusing of gravitational waves, from generic data. The first such result was obtained by Christodoulou [Chr]. We exploit the same physical mechanism, but give a logically independent construction of these spacetimes.

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