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Conformally flat travelling plane wave solutions of Einstein equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-02-26 v3

Abstract

We discuss conformally flat plane wave solutions of Einstein equations depending on the plane wave phase ξ=ωτqx\xi=\omega\tau-{\bf qx}, where τ\tau is the conformal time. We show that ideal fluid Einstein equations and scalar fields with exponential self-interaction have solutions of this form. We consider in more detail the source depending on ξ\xi with ω=q\omega=\vert{\bf q}\vert describing models of a massless scalar field, electromagnetic field and relativistic particles with space-time depending mass density. We obtain explicit conformally flat metrics solving Einstein equations with such a source of the energy-momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1906.01978,
  title  = {Conformally flat travelling plane wave solutions of Einstein equations},
  author = {Z. Haba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01978},
  year   = {2020}
}

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substantially changed version,18 pages

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