Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves

Article

Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves

Podolský, J; Steinbauer, R.

Phys. Rev. D 67(0), 064013-+ (2003)

Abstract

We study geodesic motion in expanding spherical impulsive gravitational waves propagating in a Minkowski background. Employing the continuous form of the metric we find and examine a large family of geometrically preferred geodesics. For the special class of axially symmetric spacetimes with the spherical impulse generated by a snapping cosmic string we give a detailed physical interpretation of the motion of test particles.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/02/0735 — Relativistic physics and astrophysics 2002-04

BibTeX

@article{UTF166,
  author        = {Podolský, J and Steinbauer, R.},
  title         = {{Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {67},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {064013-+},
  year          = {2003},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.67.064013},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0210007},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v67/i6/e064013},
}