Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant. I. Classification and geometrical properties of nontwisting type N solutions

DOI10.1063/1.532981zbMath0956.83008arXivgr-qc/9907048OpenAlexW3097996332MaRDI QIDQ4270440

Jiří Bičák, Jirí Podolský

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9907048

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesvacuum Einstein field equationsexpanding Robinson-Trautman classnonexpanding Kundt classnontwisting Petrof-type \(N\) solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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Cites Work

• Symmetries of the nontwisting type-N solutions with cosmological constant
• Homogeneous and conformally Ricci flat pure radiation fields
• Impulsive waves in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes generated by null particles with an arbitrary multipole structure
• Interpretation of the Siklos solutions as exact gravitational waves in the anti-de Sitter universe
• Non-expanding impulsive gravitational waves
• Spherical Gravitational Waves

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