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 , where is a Riemannian manifold of arbitrary dimension and carries the line element with the line element of and the Dirac measure. We prove a completeness result for such space-times with complete Riemannian part .
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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