Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1959
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1959rspsa.251..519b&link_type=abstract
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 251, Issue 1267, pp. 519-533
Physics
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Scientific paper
Plane gravitational waves are here defined to be non-flat solutions of Einstein's empty space-time field equations which admit as much symmetry as do plane electromagnetic waves, namely, a 5-parameter group of motions. A general plane-wave metric is written down and the properties of plane wave space-times are studied in detail. In particular, their characterization as 'plane' is justified further by the construction of 'sandwich waves' bounded on both sides by (null) hyperplanes in flat space-time. It is shown that the passing of a sandwich wave produces a relative acceleration in free test particles, and inferred from this that such waves transport energy.
Bondi Hermann
Pirani Felix A. E.
Robinson Ivor
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