On the collision of gravitational plane waves: A class of soliton solutions
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the collision of gravitational plane waves: A class of soliton solutions
zbMATH Open document ID: 0611.53064
DOI: 10.1007/BF00767280
author: B. George
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The inverse scattering method is used to obtain a class of solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations describing the space-time following the collision of two gravitational plane waves. The general features of these solutions are analyzed in terms of the behavior of the Weyl scalars, and some degenerate cases are discussed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53B50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35Q99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C35
zbMATH DE Number: 3988200
zbMATH Keywords: inverse scattering
zbMATH Keywords: vacuum Einstein equations
zbMATH Keywords: plane waves
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00767280
OpenAlex ID: W1970977617
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3988200