Collision of High Frequency Plane Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the head-on collision of linearly polarized, high frequency plane gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts in the Einstein-Maxwell theory. The post-collision space-times are obtained by solving the vacuum Einstein-Maxwell field equations in the geometrical optics approximation. The head-on collisions of all possible pairs of these systems of waves is described and the results are then generalised to non-linearly polarized waves which exhibit the maximum two degrees of freedom of polarization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0307076,
title = {Collision of High Frequency Plane Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves},
author = {P. A. Hogan and D. M. Walsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0307076},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex file, 17 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D