Scattering and collision of gravitational waves in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker open universes

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Scattering and collision of gravitational waves in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker open universes

Bičák, J.; Griffiths, J. B.

Phys. Rev. D 49(0), 900-906 (1994)

Abstract

An exact solution is presented which describes the scattering of a gravitational wave in an open expanding universe. The background region ahead of the wave is taken to be a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (k=-1) space-time containing a perfect fluid with an extreme relativistic equation of state p=?. Plane surfaces are determined in this background, so that solutions describing the scattering of a single wave with a wave front given by such a surface and the collision of two such waves can be obtained.

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

BibTeX

@article{UTF99,
  author        = {Bičák, J. and Griffiths, J. B.},
  title         = {{Scattering and collision of gravitational waves in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker open universes}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {49},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {900-906},
  year          = {1994},
  url           = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v49/p900},
}