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Colliding or noncolliding plane fronted electromagnetic or gravitational waves are the asymptotic limit of Robinson--Trautman spherical electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Noncolliding plane fronted waves contain no information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

We give the Lagrangian formulation of a generic non-minimally extended Einstein-Maxwell theory with an action that is linear in the curvature and quadratic in the electromagnetic field. We derive the coupled field equations by a first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-21 T. Dereli , O. Sert

Light waves carry along their own gravitational field; for simple plain electromagnetic waves the gravitational field takes the form of a pp-wave. I present the corresponding exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations and discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Jan Willem van Holten

The gravitational field of two-body system, a high energetic particle and a massive particle at rest, is studied in the linearized Einstein gravity. The ultrarelativistic particle yields a plane-fronted gravitational shockwave which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 D. V. Fursaev , V. A. Tainov

In this paper, we have considered how to detect the processes of plane gravitational waves colliding. The degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with aligned linear polarization, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Dongdong Wei , Xinhe Meng , Bin Wang

We identify a region of F(R)=R^{N} gravity without external sources which is isometric to the spacetime of colliding plane waves (CPW). From the derived curvature sources, N (N>1) measures the strength (i.e. the charge) of the source. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy , T. Tahamtan

We focus on the interaction of a plane gravitational wave with electromagnetic fields and we describe this interaction in the proper detector frame where, thanks to the introduction of Fermi coordinates, it is possible to refer to directly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We study four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell fields for which any higher-order corrections to the field equations effectively reduces to just a rescaling of the gravitational and the cosmological constant. These configurations are thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Marcello Ortaggio

A technique is given to generate coupled scalar field solutions in colliding Einstein - Maxwell (EM) waves. By employing the Bell - Szekeres solution as seed and depending on the chosen scalar field it is possible to construct nonsingular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 O. Gurtug , M. Halilsoy , I. Sakalli

We consider interactions of exact (i.e., solutions of full nonlinear field equations) gravitational waves with matter by using the Einstein-Boltzmann equation. For a gravitational wave interacting with a system of massless particles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Morteza Mohseni , Saurya Das

This paper introduces a new effort to study the collision of plane-fronted gravitational waves in four dimensional, asymptotically flat spacetime, using numerical solutions of the Einstein equations. The pure vacuum problem requires…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Frans Pretorius , William E. East

In this paper we present Plane symmetric, Cylindrically Symmetric and Spherically Symmetric Black hole or Vacuum solutions of Einstein Field Equations(EFEs). Some of these solutions are new which we have not seen in the literature. This…

General Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Farhad Ali

Applying a simple harmonic map method to the cylindrically symmetric Einstein-Maxwell system, we obtain exact solutions representing strong nonlinear interaction between gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves in the case without any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Takashi Mishima , Shinya Tomizawa

Bell-Szekeres (BS) solution for colliding electromagnetic waves in Einstein-Maxwell (EM) theory describes also colliding waves in nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) with an emergent cosmological constant. Our NED model covers the first leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

Plane electromagnetic and gravitational waves interact with particles in such a way as to cause them to oscillate not only in the transverse direction but also along the direction of propagation. The electromagnetic case is usually shown by…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gerald E. Marsh

We derive an asymptotic solution of the Einstein field equations which describes the propagation of a thin, large amplitude gravitational wave into a curved space-time. The resulting equations have the same form as the colliding plane wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-31 G. Ali , J. K. Hunter

Four-dimensional colliding plane wave (CPW) solutions have played an important role in understanding the classical non-linearities of Einstein's equations. In this note, we investigate CPW solutions in $2n+2$--dimensional Einstein gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Gutperle , B. Pioline

We show that the Maxwell equations describing an electromagnetic wave are a mathematical consequence of the Einstein equations for the same wave. This fact is significant for the problem of the Einsteinian metrics corresponding to the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 A. Loinger , T. Marsico

The energy and momentum transported by exact plane gravitational-wave solutions of Einstein equations are computed using the teleparallel equivalent formulation of Einstein's theory. It is shown that these waves transport neither energy nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Yuri N. Obukhov , J. G. Pereira , Guillermo F. Rubilar

We consider Einstein's equations coupled to the Euler equations in plane symmetry, with compact spatial slices and constant mean curvature time. We show that for a wide variety of equations of state and a large class of initial data,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 Alan D. Rendall , Fredrik Ståhl