Colliding waves in metric-affine gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-08-15 v1
Abstract
We generalize the formulation of the colliding gravitational waves to metric-affine theories and present an example of such kind of exact solutions. The plane waves are equipped with five symmetries and the resulting geometry after the collision possesses two spacelike Killing vectors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9711041,
title = {Colliding waves in metric-affine gravity},
author = {Alberto García and Claus Lämmerzahl and Alfredo Macías and Eckehard W. Mielke and José Socorro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9711041},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
17 pages, Revtex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D