Symmetries and geodesics in (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes with nonexpanding impulsive waves

Details Symmetries and geodesics in (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes with nonexpanding impulsive waves Symmetries and geodesics in (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes with nonexpanding impulsive waves

2001-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0105065v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 2689-2706

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

16 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX 2e. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/18/14/307

We consider a class of exact solutions which represent nonexpanding impulsive waves in backgrounds with nonzero cosmological constant. Using a convenient 5-dimensional formalism it is shown that these spacetimes admit at least three global Killing vector fields. The same geometrical approach enables us to find all geodesics in a simple explicit form and describe the effect of impulsive waves on test particles. Timelike geodesics in the axially-symmetric Hotta-Tanaka spacetime are studied in detail. It is also demonstrated that for vanishing cosmological constant, the symmetries and geodesics reduce to those for well-known impulsive pp-waves.

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