A new twist on the geometry of gravitational plane waves

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)039zbMath1382.83037arXiv1705.09533OpenAlexW3105943518MaRDI QIDQ1705930

Graham M. Shore

Publication date: 19 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09533

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityquantum field theory in curved spacetimedifferential and algebraic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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