Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1995-12-06
Class.Quant.Grav. 13 (1996) 1661-1678
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
15 pages, Plain Tex, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/028
In the present paper the determination of the {\it pp}-wave metric form the geometry of certain spacelike two-surfaces is considered. It has been shown that the vanishing of the Dougan--Mason quasi-local mass $m_{\$}$, associated with the smooth boundary $\$:=\partial\Sigma\approx S^2$ of a spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma$, is equivalent to the statement that the Cauchy development $D(\Sigma)$ is of a {\it pp}-wave type geometry with pure radiation, provided the ingoing null normals are not diverging on $\$ $ and the dominant energy condition holds on $D(\Sigma)$. The metric on $D(\Sigma)$ itself, however, has not been determined. Here, assuming that the matter is a zero-rest-mass-field, it is shown that both the matter field and the {\it pp}-wave metric of $D(\Sigma)$ are completely determined by the value of the zero-rest-mass-field on $\$ $ and the two dimensional Sen--geometry of $\$ $ provided a convexity condition, slightly stronger than above, holds. Thus the {\it pp}-waves can be characterized not only by the usual Cauchy data on a {\it three} dimensional $\Sigma$ but by data on its {\it two} dimensional boundary $\$ $ too. In addition, it is shown that the Ludvigsen--Vickers quasi-local angular momentum of axially symmetric {\it pp}-wave geometries has the familiar properties known for pure (matter) radiation.
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