METAPHYSICS OF COLLIDING SELFGRAVITATING PLANE WAVES
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- Phys.Rev.D 29 (1984) 1575-1583
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Abstract: (APS)
We discuss certain global features of colliding plane-wave solutions to Einstein's equations. In particular, we show that the apparently local curvature singularities both in the Khan-Penrose solution and in the Bell-Szekeres solution are actually global. These global singularities are associated with the breakdown of nondegenerate planar symmetry in the characteristic initial data sets.- general relativity
- GRAVITATION
- Einstein equation
- FIELD EQUATIONS: SOLUTION
- SYMMETRY: INTERNAL
- FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
- GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
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