Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1998-11-16
Gen.Rel.Grav. 31 (1999) 91-105
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
17 pages, LaTeX, no figures. To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
Scientific paper
An explanation is proposed for the fact that pp-waves superpose linearly when they propagate parallely, while they interact nonlinearly, scatter and form singularities or Cauchy horizons if they are antiparallel. Parallel pp-waves do interact, but a generalized gravitoelectric force is exactly cancelled by a gravitomagnetic force. In an analogy, the interaction of light beams in linearized general relativity is also revisited and clarified, a new result is obtained for photon to photon attraction, and a conjecture is proved. Given equal energy density in the beams, the light-to-light attraction is twice the matter-to-light attraction and four times the matter-to-matter attraction.
Dumse R. M.
Faraoni Valerio
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