Behavior of Einstein-Rosen waves at null infinity

Article

Behavior of Einstein-Rosen waves at null infinity

Ashtekar, A.; Bičák, J.; Schmidt, B.~G.

Phys. Rev. D 55(0), 687-694 (1997)

Abstract

The asymptotic behavior of Einstein-Rosen waves at null infinity in four dimensions is investigated in all directions by exploiting the relation between the four-dimensional space-time and the three-dimensional symmetry reduction thereof. Somewhat surprisingly, the behavior in a generic direction is better than that in directions orthogonal to the symmetry axis. The geometric origin of this difference can be understood most clearly from the three-dimensional perspective.

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/96/0206 — Relativistic physics and astrophysics
GAUK 230/1996 — Relativistická teorie gravitace, astrofyzika a kosmologie

BibTeX

@article{UTF240,
  author        = {Ashtekar, A. and Bičák, J. and Schmidt, B.\textasciitilde{}G.},
  title         = {{Behavior of Einstein-Rosen waves at null infinity}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {55},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {687-694},
  year          = {1997},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/9608041},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v55/i2/p687\_1},
}