Generalized plane-fronted gravitational waves in any dimension
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study the gravitational waves in spacetimes of arbitrary dimension. They generalize the pp-waves and the Kundt waves, obtained earlier in four dimensions. Explicit solutions of the Einstein and Einstein-Maxwell equations are derived for an arbitrary cosmological constant.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310121,
title = {Generalized plane-fronted gravitational waves in any dimension},
author = {Yuri N. Obukhov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310121},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Revtex, 18 pages, no figures