General Relativity and Gravitation

, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp 405–425 | Cite as

On the collision of gravitational plane waves: a class of soliton solutions

  • Valeria Ferrari
  • Jesus Ibañez
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Soliton General Feature Plane Wave Differential Geometry Einstein Equation 
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© Plenum Publishing Corporation 1987

Authors and Affiliations

  • Valeria Ferrari
    • 1
  • Jesus Ibañez
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics-ICRA, Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Marconi,”Universita' di RomaRomeItaly
  2. 2.Departemento de Fisica TeoricaUniversitad de Palma De MallorcaSpain
  3. 3.Guest of the Department of Physics of the University of Rome and the Specola VaticanaItaly

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