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On the completeness of impulsive gravitational wave space-times

Mathematical Physics 2012-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology math.MP

Abstract

We consider a class of impulsive gravitational wave space-times, which generalize impulsive pp-waves. They are of the form M=N×R12M=N\times\mathbb{R}^2_1, where (N,h)(N,h) is a Riemannian manifold of arbitrary dimension and MM carries the line element ds2=dh2+2dudv+f(x)δ(u)du2ds^2=dh^2+ 2dudv+f(x)\delta(u)du^2 with dh2dh^2 the line element of NN and δ\delta the Dirac measure. We prove a completeness result for such space-times MM with complete Riemannian part NN.

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@article{arxiv.1207.2633,
  title  = {On the completeness of impulsive gravitational wave space-times},
  author = {Clemens Sämann and Roland Steinbauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2633},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

13 pages, minor changes suggested by the referees