Abstract
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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1053-1064 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 15 Aug 1987 |