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pp-waves in modified gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-04-21 v5

Abstract

The family of metrics corresponding to the plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel propagation, commonly referred to as the family of pp-wave metrics, is studied in the context of various modified gravitational models in a self-contained and coherent manner by using a variant of the null coframe formulation of Newman and Penrose and the exterior algebra of differential forms on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1510.00522,
  title  = {pp-waves in modified gravity},
  author = {Ahmet Baykal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00522},
  year   = {2017}
}

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