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Cylindrical gravitational waves in expanding universes: Models for waves from compact sources

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

New boundary conditions are imposed on the familiar cylindrical gravitational wave vacuum spacetimes. The new spacetime family represents cylindrical waves in a flat expanding (Kasner) universe. Space sections are flat and nonconical where the waves have not reached and wave amplitudes fall off more rapidly than they do in Einstein-Rosen solutions, permitting a more regular null inifinity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0701161,
  title  = {Cylindrical gravitational waves in expanding universes: Models for waves from compact sources},
  author = {Robert H. Gowdy and B. Douglas Edmonds},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0701161},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Minor corrections to references. A note added in proof