Gravitational waves: just plane symmetry

DOI10.1007/S10714-006-0255-8zbMATH Open1134.83309arXivgr-qc/9907089OpenAlexW1967223045MaRDI QIDQ851037FDOQ851037

Authors: C. G. Torre 

Publication date: 9 November 2006

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present some remarkable properties of the symmetry group for gravitational plane waves. Our main observation is that metrics with plane wave symmetry satisfy every system of generally covariant vacuum field equations except the Einstein equations. The proof uses the homothety admitted by metrics with plane wave symmetry and the scaling behavior of generally covariant field equations. We also discuss a mini-superspace description of spacetimes with plane wave symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9907089

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zbMATH Keywords

Isometry groupPlane wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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