The collision and snapping of cosmic strings generating spherical impulsive gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/6/306zbMath0981.83050arXivgr-qc/0001049OpenAlexW2027889054MaRDI QIDQ4954050

Jerry B. Griffiths, Jirí Podolský

Publication date: 8 March 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0001049

zbMATH Keywords

collision of cosmic stringsimpulsive spherical gravitational wavePenrose `cut and paste' methodsnapping cosmic string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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