Symmetries of pp-Waves with Distributional Profile

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1995-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9509025v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 13 (1996) 723-730

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, latex2e, no figures, statement about the combination of symmetry classes of impulsive waves corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/13/4/012

We generalize the classification of (non-vacuum) pp-waves \cite{JEK} based on
the Killing-algebra of the space-time by admitting distribution-valued profile
functions. Our approach is based on the analysis of the (infinite-dimensional)
group of ``normal-form-preserving'' diffeomorphisms.

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