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An exact-plane fronted wave solution in metric-affine gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study plane-fronted electrovacuum waves in metric-affine gravity (MAG) with cosmological constant in the triplet ansatz sector of the theory. Their field strengths are, on the gravitational side, curvature RαβR_{\alpha}{}^{\beta}, nonmetricity QαβQ_{\alpha\beta}, torsion TαT^{\alpha} and, on the matter side, the electromagnetic field strength FF. Here we basically present, after a short introduction into MAG and its triplet subcase, the results of earlier joint work with Garcia, Macias, and Socorro. Our solution is based on an exact solution of Ozsvath, Robinson, and Rozga describing type N gravitational fields in general relativity as coupled to electromagnetic null-fields.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0011116,
  title  = {An exact-plane fronted wave solution in metric-affine gravity},
  author = {Dirk Puetzfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0011116},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, Invited lecture at a Conference in honour of Heinz Dehnen's 65th and Dietrich Kramer's 60th birthday." Held at CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, 2-6 October 2000. To appear in: ``Exact solutions and scalar field in gravity: Recent Developments." A. Macias, J. Cervantes, and C. Laemmerzahl eds., Kluwer, Dordrecht (2001) to be published

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