Impulsive waves in electrovac direct product spacetimes with Lambda

dc.creatorOrtaggio, Marcello
dc.creatorPodolsky, Jiri
dc.date2002-09-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:23:24Z
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dc.descriptionA complete family of non-expanding impulsive waves in spacetimes which are the direct product of two 2-spaces of constant curvature is presented. In addition to previously investigated impulses in Minkowski, (anti-)Nariai and Bertotti-Robinson universes, a new explicit class of impulsive waves which propagate in the exceptional electrovac Plebanski-Hacyan spacetimes with a cosmological constant Lambda is constructed. In particular, pure gravitational waves generated by null particles with an arbitrary multipole structure are described. The metrics are impulsive members of a more general family of the Kundt spacetimes of type II. The well-known pp-waves are recovered for Lambda=0.
dc.description6 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX 2e. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0209068
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0209068
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 5221-5227
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/20/313
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/96217
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleImpulsive waves in electrovac direct product spacetimes with Lambda
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