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Non-standard sandwich gravitational waves are constructed from the homogeneouspp vacuum solution and the motions of free test particles in the space-times are calculated explicitly. They demonstrate the caustic property of sandwich waves. By performing limits to impulsive gravitational wave it is demonstrated that the resulting particle motions are identical regardless of the “initial” sandwich.
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Podolský, J., Veselý, K. New examples of sandwich gravitational waves and their impulsive limit. Czech J Phys 48, 871–878 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022869004605
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022869004605