Cylindrical gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/6/6/017zbMath0682.35073OpenAlexW2057187402MaRDI QIDQ4731574

N. M. J. Woodhouse

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/6/6/017

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesgenerating functionEinstein's equationscharacteristicscylindrical wave solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Wave equation (35L05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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