Test particle motion in a gravitational plane wave collision background
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-07 v3
Abstract
Test particle geodesic motion is analysed in detail for the background spacetimes of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez colliding gravitational wave solutions. Killing vectors have been used to reduce the equations of motion to a first order system of differential equations which have been integrated numerically. The associated constants of the motion have also been used to match the geodesics as they cross over the boundary between the single plane wave and interaction zones.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0212008,
title = {Test particle motion in a gravitational plane wave collision background},
author = {Donato Bini and Gianluca Cruciani and Andrea Lunari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0212008},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 Postscript figures