Null Limits of Generalised Bonnor-Swaminarayan Solutions

Article

Null Limits of Generalised Bonnor-Swaminarayan Solutions

Podolský, J; Griffiths, J. B.

Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 33(0), 37-57 (2001)

Abstract

The Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions are boost-rotation symmetric space-times which describe the motion of pairs of accelerating particles which are possibly connected to strings (struts). In an explicit and unified form we present a generalised class of such solutions with a few new observations. We then investigate the possible limits in which the accelerations become unbounded. The resulting space-times represent spherical impulsive gravitational waves with snapping or expanding cosmic strings. We also obtain an exact solution for a snapping string of finite length.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/99/0261 — Relativistic physics and astrophysics

BibTeX

@article{UTF159,
  author        = {Podolský, J and Griffiths, J. B.},
  title         = {{Null Limits of Generalised Bonnor-Swaminarayan Solutions}},
  journal       = {Gen. Relativ. Gravit.},
  volume        = {33},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {37-57},
  year          = {2001},
  doi           = {10.1023/A:1002071802044},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0006092},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/l3g18025vx701842/fulltext.pdf},
}