Colliding plane gravitational waves: a class of nondiagonal soliton solutions

Valeria Ferrari; Jesus Ibanez; Marco Bruni

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.36.1053

Colliding plane gravitational waves: a class of nondiagonal soliton solutions

Valeria Ferrari^*, Jesus Ibanez, Marco Bruni

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Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation

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Using the inverse scattering method we construct a general class of nondiagonal solutions of the vacuum Einstein field equations describing the collision of two plane-fronted impulsive gravitational waves accompanied with gravitational shock waves with the same front. It is a two-parameter class of solutions: the first represents the angle between the directions of polarization of the two waves; the second determines the wave profile.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1053-1064
Number of pages	12
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.36.1053
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 1987

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Valeria Ferrari, Jesus Ibanez, and Marco Bruni, 'Colliding plane gravitational waves: A class of nondiagonal soliton solutions.' Phys. Rev. D 36, 1053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.36.1053. © 1987 American Physical Society. All rights reserved.
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