Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves

Details Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves Geodesics in spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves

2002-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210007v2

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 064013

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, Revtex, final version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.064013

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.

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