Peeling properties of lightlike signals in General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The peeling properties of a lightlike signal propagating through a general Bondi-Sachs vacuum spacetime and leaving behind another Bondi-Sachs vacuum space-time are studied. We demonstrate that in general the peeling behavior is the conventional one which is associated with a radiating isolated system and that it becomes unconventional if the asymptotically flat space-times on either side of the history of the light-like signal tend to flatness at future null infinity faster than the general Bondi-Sachs space-time. This latter situation occurs if, for example, the space-times in question are static Bondi-Sachs space- times.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0002047,
title = {Peeling properties of lightlike signals in General Relativity},
author = {G. F. Bressange and P. A. Hogan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0002047},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages, LaTeX2e