A new exact solution for colliding gravitational plane waves

DOI10.1007/BF00767279zbMath0611.53065OpenAlexW1998026752WikidataQ126123855 ScholiaQ126123855MaRDI QIDQ1087164

B. George

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00767279

zbMATH Keywords

plane wavessingularitygravitational wavesvacuum Einstein equationsNewman- Penrose formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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