Strongly Focused Gravitational Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-05-08 v2
Abstract
This paper contains a new proof of the formation of trapped spheres, in vacuum spacetimes, by the focusing of gravitational waves, from generic data. The first such result was obtained by Christodoulou [Chr]. We exploit the same physical mechanism, but give a logically independent construction of these spacetimes.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.3812,
title = {Strongly Focused Gravitational Waves},
author = {Michael Reiterer and Eugene Trubowitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3812},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
36 pages; v2 is mathematically identical to v1, only the exposition has changed; Section 9 of v1 contains results that are absent in v2