List of key publications of Jiri Podolsky




monographs


1  
"Exact Space-Times in Einstein’s General Relativity"

Jerry B. Griffiths and Jiri Podolsky
Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 545 pages
ISBN 978-0-521-88927-8

paperback edition with corrections and updates
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 548 pages
ISBN 978-1-107-40618-6

see also my CQG+ contribution Understanding exact space-times
(the companion blog to Classical and Quantum Gravity, posted on August 20, 2018)


2  
"Gravitation: Following the Prague Inspiration"
(A volume in celebration of the 60th birthday of Jiri Bicak)

Oldrich Semerak, Jiri Podolsky and Martin Zofka (editors)
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2002, 323 pages
ISBN 981-238-093-0

the contribution ibid., pages 205–246
"Exact impulsive gravitational waves in spacetimes of constant curvature"
Also : gr-qc / 0201029



3  
"Einstein opět v Praze - fyzika v seriálu Génius"
(Einstein again in Prague - Physics in the TV series Genius)

Jiri Podolsky, Pavel Cejnar, Stanislav Danis and Jan Valenta
Praha: MatfyzPress, 2021, 176 pages
ISBN 978-80-7378-445-4








main articles


1  
"Contribution to the study of solar radiation concentrators"
(Příspěvek k problematice koncentrátorů slunečního záření)

(JP, V.Malat),         Jemná mechanika a optika 11/84, 307 (1984).

2  
"Lorentz boosts in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space-times"
Czech. J. Phys. 43, 1173 (1993). 3  
"Inflation Pressures"
(K.Cahill and JP),       J. Phys. G.: Nucl. Part. Phys. 20, 571 (1994) 4  
"The cosmic no-hair conjecture and black-hole formation: an exact model with gravitational radiation"
(J.Bicak and JP),        Phys. Rev. D 52, 887 (1995). 5  
"Global structure of Robinson-Trautman radiative space-times with cosmological constant"
(J.Bicak and JP),         Phys.Rev. D 55, 1985 (1997). 6  
"Impulsive gravitational waves generated by null particles in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Phys.Rev. D 56, 4756 (1997). 7  
"Null multipole particles as sources of pp-waves"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Phys. Lett. A 236, 8 (1997). 8  
"Impulsive waves in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space-times generated by null particles with an arbitrary multipole structure"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Class. Quantum Grav. 15, 453 (1998). 9  
"Interpretation of the Siklos solutions as exact gravitational waves in the anti-de Sitter universe"
Class. Quantum Grav. 15, 719 (1998). 10  
"Continuous coordinates for all impulsive pp-waves"
(JP and K. Vesely),   Phys. Lett. A 241, 145 (1998). 11  
"New examples of sandwich gravitational waves and their impulsive limit"
(JP and K.Vesely),   Czech. J. Phys. 48, 871 (1998). 12  
"Chaos in pp-wave spacetimes"
(JP and K.Vesely),   Phys.Rev. D 58, 081501 (1998). 13  
"Non-expanding impulsive gravitational waves"
Class. Quantum Grav. 15, 3229 (1998). 14  
"Chaotic motion in pp-wave spacetimes"
(JP and K.Vesely),   Class. Quantum Grav. 15, 3505 (1998). 15  
"Boosted static multipole particles as sources of impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Phys.Rev. D 58, 124024 (1998). 16  
"Interpreting a conformally flat pure radiation space-time"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 15, 3863 (1998). 17  
"Smooth sandwich gravitational waves"
Czech. J. Phys. 49, 981 (1999). 18  
"Expanding impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Class. Quantum Grav. 16, 2937 (1999). 19  
"Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant.
I. Classification and geometrical properties of nontwisting type N solutions"

(J.Bicak and JP),        J. Math. Phys. 40, 4495 (1999). 20  
"Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant.
II. Deviation of geodesics and interpretation of nontwisting type N solutions"

(J.Bicak and JP),        J. Math. Phys. 40, 4506 (1999). 21  
"Nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with an arbitrary cosmological constant"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Phys. Lett. A 261, 1 (1999). 22
"Smearing of chaos in sandwich pp-waves"
(JP and K.Vesely),   Class. Quantum Grav. 16, 3599 (1999). 23
"The structure of extreme Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time"
Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 31, 1703 (1999). 24  
"The collision and snapping of cosmic strings generating spherical impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Class. Quantum Grav. 17, 1401 (2000). 25  
"Exact solutions for impulsive gravitational waves"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 9, SI59 (2000). 26  
"Chaos in pp-wave spacetimes and its smearing in the impulsive limit"
                    Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 9, SI147 (2000). 27  
"Chaos in a modified Henon-Heiles system describing geodesics in gravitational waves"
(K.Vesely and JP),   Phys. Lett. A 271, 368 (2000). 28  
"Null limits of generalised Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),  Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 33, 37 (2001). 29  
"Null limits of the C-metric"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),  Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 33, 59 (2001). 30  
"Uniformly accelerating black holes in a de Sitter universe"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Phys. Rev. D 63, 024006 (2001). 31  
"Exact non-singular waves in the anti-de Sitter universe"
Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 33, 1093 (2001). 32  
"Symmetries and geodesics in (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes with non-expanding impulsive waves"
(JP and M.Ortaggio),   Class. Quantum Grav. 18, 2689 (2001). 33  
"Accelerating black holes in anti-de Sitter universe"
Czech. J. Phys. 52, 1 (2002). 34  
"Impulsive waves in electrovac direct product spacetimes with Lambda"
(M.Ortaggio and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 19, 5221 (2002). 35  
"An interpretation of Robinson-Trautman type N solutions"
(J.B.Griffiths, JP and P.Docherty),   Class. Quantum Grav. 19, 4649 (2002). 36  
"Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP and R.Steinbauer),   Phys. Rev. D 67, 064013 (2003). 37  
"Explicit Kundt type II and N solutions as gravitational waves in various type D and O universes"
(JP and M.Ortaggio),   Class. Quantum Grav. 20, 1685 (2003). 38  
"Radiation from accelerated black holes in a de Sitter universe"
(P.Krtous and JP),   Phys. Rev. D 68, 024005 (2003). 39  
"Gravitational and electromagnetic fields near a de Sitter-like infinity"
(P.Krtous, JP and J.Bicak),   Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 061101 (2003). 40  
"Radiation from accelerated black holes in an anti-de Sitter universe"
(JP, M.Ortaggio and P.Krtous),   Phys. Rev. D 68, 124004 (2003). 41  
"Generalized Kundt waves and their physical interpretation"
(J.B.Griffiths, P.Docherty and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 21, 207 (2004). 42  
"Some high-frequency gravitational waves related to exact radiative spacetimes"
(JP and O.Svitek),   Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 36, 387 (2004). 43  
"A snapping cosmic string in a de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Class. Quantum Grav. 21, 2537 (2004). 44  
"Gravitational and electromagnetic fields near an anti-de Sitter-like infinity"
(P.Krtous and JP),   Phys. Rev. D 69, 084023 (2004). 45  
"Geodesic motion in Kundt spacetimes and the character of envelope singularity"
(JP and M.Belan),   Class. Quantum Grav. 21, 2811 (2004). 46  
"The Efroimsky formalism for weak gravitational waves adapted to high-frequancy perturbations"
(O.Svitek and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 21, 3579 (2004). 47  
"Asymptotic directional structure of radiative fields in spacetimes with a cosmological constant"
(P.Krtous and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 21, R233 (2004).
TOPICAL REVIEW 48  
"Asymptotic directional structure of radiation for fields of algebraic type D"
(P.Krtous and JP),   Czech. J. Phys. 55, 119 (2005). 49  
"Radiative spacetimes approaching the Vaidya metric"
(JP and O.Svitek),   Phys. Rev. D 71, 124001 (2005). 50  
"Ultrarelativistic boost of the black ring"
(M.Ortaggio, P.Krtous and JP),   Phys. Rev. D 71, 124031 (2005). 51  
"Ultrarelativistic boost of spinning black rings"
(M.Ortaggio, JP and P.Krtous),   JHEP 12 2005, 001 (2005). 52  
"Buquoy’s problem"
(V.Šíma and JP),   Eur. J. Phys. 26, 1037 (2005). 53  
"Accelerating and rotating black holes"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 22, 3467 (2005). 54  
"A new look at the Plabanski-Demianski family of solutions"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 15, 335 (2006). 55  
"Global aspects of accelerating and rotating black hole space-times"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 555 (2006). 56  
"Asymptotic structure of radiation in higher dimensions"
(P.Krtous and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 1603 (2006). 57  
"Accelerating Kerr-Newman black holes in (anti-)de Sitter space-time"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),   Phys. Rev. D 73, 044018 (2006). 58  
"Robinson-Trautman spacetimes in higher dimensions"
(JP and M.Ortaggio),   Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 5785 (2006). 59  
"Interpreting the C-metric"
(J.B.Griffiths, P.Krtous and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 6745 (2006). 60  
"Evolution of high-frequency gravitational waves in some cosmological models"
(O.Svitek and JP),   Czech. J. Phys. 56, 1367 (2006). 61  
"On the parameters of the Kerr-NUT-(anti-)de Sitter space-time"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 24, 1687 (2007). 62  
"Chaotic motion in Kundt spacetimes"
(JP and D.Kofron),   Class. Quantum Grav. 24, 3413 (2007). 63  
"Robinson-Trautman spacetimes with an electromagnetic field in higher dimensions"
(M.Ortaggio, JP and M.Zofka),   Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 025006 (2008). 64  
"Photon rockets in the (anti-)de Sitter universe"
Phys. Rev. D 78, 044029 (2008). 65  
"Radiation generated by accelerating and rotating charged black holes in (anti-)de Sitter space"
(JP and H.Kadlecova),   Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 105007 (2009). 66  
"General Kundt spacetimes in higher dimensions"
(JP and M.Zofka),   Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 105008 (2009). 67  
"On conformally flat and type N pure radiation metrics"
(JP and O.Prikryl),   Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 41, 1069 (2009). 68  
"Gyratons on direct-product spacetimes"
(H.Kadlecova, A.Zelnikov, P.Krtous and JP),  Phys. Rev. D 80, 024004 (2009). 69  
"Past horizons in Robinson-Trautman spacetimes with a cosmological constant"
(JP and O.Svitek),  Phys. Rev. D 80, 124042 (2009). 70  
"The Linet-Tian solution with a positive cosmological constant in four and higher dimensions"
(J.B.Griffiths and JP),  Phys. Rev. D 81, 064015 (2010). 71  
"Refraction of geodesics by impulsive spherical gravitational waves in constant-curvature spacetimes with a cosmological constant"
(JP and R.Svarc),  Phys. Rev. D 81, 124035 (2010). 72  
"Photon rockets moving arbitrarily in any dimension"
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 20, 335 (2011). 73  
"The behaviour of geodesics in constant-curvature spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves"
(R.Svarc and JP),  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 314, 012066 (2011). 74  
"Cylindrically and toroidally symmetric solutions with a cosmological constant"
(JP and J.B.Griffiths),  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 314, 012100 (2011). 75  
"Interpreting spacetimes of any dimension using geodesic deviation"
(JP and R.Svarc),  Phys. Rev. D 85, 044057 (2012). 76  
"Higher-dimensional Kundt waves and gyratons"
(P.Krtous, JP, A.Zelnikov and H.Kadlecova),  Phys. Rev. D 86, 044039 (2012). 77  
"Geodesic deviation: Useful tool for understanding higher dimensional spacetimes"
(R.Svarc and JP),  AIP Conf. Proc. 1458, 527 (2012). 78  
"Explicit algebraic classification of Kundt geometries in any dimension"
(JP and R.Svarc),   Class. Quantum Grav. 30, 125007 (2013). 79  
"Physical interpretation of Kundt spacetimes using geodesic deviation"
(JP and R.Svarc),   Class. Quantum Grav. 30, 205016 (2013). 80  
"Absence of gyratons in the Robinson-Trautman class"
(R.Svarc and JP),   Phys. Rev. D 89, 124029 (2014).
Erratum : Phys. Rev. D 99, 049901(E) (2019) and Phys. Rev. D 99, 044004 (2019) 81  
"Gyratonic pp-waves and their impulsive limit"
(JP, R.Steinbauer and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 90, 044050 (2014). 82  
"Algebraic structure of Robinson-Trautman and Kundt geometries in arbitrary dimension"
(JP and R.Svarc),   Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 015001 (2015). 83  
"The global existence, uniqueness and C1-regularity of geodesics in nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP, C.Saemann, R.Steinbauer and R.Svarc),   Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 025003 (2015). 84  
"Static and radiating p-form black holes in the higher dimensional Robinson-Trautman class"
(M.Ortaggio, JP and M.Zofka),   JHEP 02 2015, 045 (2015). 85  
"Geodesics in nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with Lambda, part I"
(C.Saemann, R.Steinbauer, A. Lecke and JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 33, 115002 (2016). 86  
"The global uniqueness and C1-regularity of geodesics in expanding impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP, C.Saemann, R.Steinbauer and R.Svarc),   Class. Quantum Grav. 33, 195010 (2016). 87  
"Algebraic classification of Robinson-Trautman spacetimes"
(JP and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 94, 064043 (2016). 88  
"On exact solutions to quadratic gravity"
(V.Pravda, A.Pravdova, JP and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 95, 084025 (2017). 89  
"Yet another family of diagonal metrics for de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes"
( JP and O.Hruska),   Phys. Rev. D 95, 124052 (2017).
this paper was selected in June 2017 as Editors' Suggestion by Physical Reviev D 90  
"Penrose junction conditions extended: impulsive waves with gyratons"
(JP, R.Svarc, R.Steinbauer and C.Saemann),   Phys. Rev. D 96, 064043 (2017). 91  
"Decreasing entropy of dynamical black holes in critical gravity"
(H.Maeda, R.Svarc and JP),   JHEP 06 2018, 118 (2018). 92  
"Non-expanding Plebanski-Demianski space-times"
(JP, O.Hruska and J.B.Griffiths),   Class. Quantum Grav. 35, 165011 (2018).
this paper was selected in July 2018 for CQG+ Promotion by Classical and Quantum Gravity 93  
"Explicit black hole solutions in higher-derivative gravity"
(JP, R.Svarc, V.Pravda and A.Pravdova),   Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. D 98, 021502(R) (2018). 94  
"Exact black holes in quadratic gravity with any cosmological constant"
(R.Svarc, JP, V.Pravda and A.Pravdova),   Physical Review Letters   Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231104 (2018). 95  
"All solutions of Einstein's equations in 2+1 dimensions: Lambda-vacuum, pure radiation, or gyratons"
(JP, R.Svarc, H.Maeda),   Class. Quantum Grav. 36, 015009 (2019). 96  
"Gyratons in the Robinson-Trautman and Kundt classes"
(JP and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 99, 044004 (2019). 97  
"Interpreting A and B metrics with Lambda as gravitational field of a tachyon in (anti-)de Sitter universe"
(O.Hruska and JP),   Phys. Rev. D 99, 084037 (2019). 98  
"Cut-and-paste for impulsive gravitational waves with Lambda: The geometric picture"
(JP, C.Saemann, R.Steinbauer and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 100, 024040 (2019). 99  
"Black holes and other exact spherical solutions in quadratic gravity"
(JP, R.Svarc, V.Pravda and A.Pravdova),   Phys. Rev. D 101, 024027 (2020). 100  
"Kundt spacetimes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory"
(R.Svarc, JP, O.Hruska),   Phys. Rev. D 102, 084012 (2020). 101  
"Accelerating NUT black holes"
(JP, A.Vratny),   Phys. Rev. D 102, 084024 (2020). 102  
"Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA"
(E. Barausse et al.),   Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 52, 81 (2020). 103  
"Black holes and other spherical solutions in quadratic gravity with a cosmological constant"
(V.Pravda, A.Pravdova, JP and R.Svarc),   Phys. Rev. D 103, 064049 (2021). 104  
"Uniqueness of extremal isolated horizons and their identification with horizons of all type D black holes"
(D.Matejov, JP),   Class. Quantum Grav. 38, 135032 (2021). 105  
"New improved form of black holes of type D"
(JP, A.Vratny),   Phys. Rev. D 104, 084078 (2021). 106  
"All solutions of Einstein-Maxwell equations with a cosmological constant in 2+1 dimensions"
(JP, M.Papajcik),   Phys. Rev. D 105, 064004 (2022). 107  
"Extremal isolated horizons with a cosmological constant and the related unique type D black holes"
(D.Matejov, JP),   Phys. Rev. D 105, 064016 (2022). 108  
"New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA"
(K.G. Arun et al.),   Living Reviews in Relativity 25, 4 (2022). 109  
"Penrose junction conditions with Lambda: geometric insights into low-regularity metrics for impulsive gravitational waves"
(JP, R.Steinbauer),   Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 54, 96 (2022).
in the topical volume Singularity theorems, causality, and all that (SCRI21) honoring Roger Penrose's accomplishments in mathematical relativity 110  
"New form of all black holes of type D with a cosmological constant"
(JP, A.Vratny),   Phys. Rev. D 107, 084034 (2023). 111  
"Erratum: New form of all black holes of type D with a cosmological constant"
(JP, A.Vratny),   Phys. Rev. D 108, 129902(E) (2023). 112  
"Novel classification method of 2+1 spacetimes based on the Cotton scalars"
(JP, M.Papajcik),   Phys. Rev. D 108, L121504 (2023).


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