Solitonic gravitational waves in Gowdy universe's background (Q1125155)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1371672
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Solitonic gravitational waves in Gowdy universe's background
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1371672

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    Solitonic gravitational waves in Gowdy universe's background (English)
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    29 November 1999
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    For spacetimes admitting two hypersurface-orthogonal Killing fields, vacuum solutions of Einstein equations may be generated using the well-known Belinskii-Zakharov inverse scattering method. In this paper one-soliton solutions are computed that have the Gowdy cosmological solution as the background.
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    Belinskii-Zakharov method
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    Gowdy universe
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    gravitational shock wave
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    Gowdy cosmological solution
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