Radiative spacetimes approaching the Vaidya metric

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Radiative spacetimes approaching the Vaidya metric

Podolský, J; Svítek, O.

Phys. Rev. D 71(0), 124001-+ (2005)

Abstract

We analyze a class of exact type II solutions of the Robinson-Trautman family which contain pure radiation and (possibly) a cosmological constant. It is shown that these spacetimes exist for any sufficiently smooth initial data, and that they approach the spherically symmetric Vaidya-(anti-)de Sitter metric. We also investigate extensions of the metric, and we demonstrate that their order of smoothness is in general only finite. Some applications of the results are outlined.

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@article{UTF178,
  author        = {Podolský, J and Svítek, O.},
  title         = {{Radiative spacetimes approaching the Vaidya metric}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {71},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {124001-+},
  year          = {2005},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124001},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0506016},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf\&id=PRVDAQ000071000012124001000001\&idtype=cvips\&prog=normal},
}