The gravity of light-waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-09-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
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 dynamics of classical particles and quantum fields in this gravitational and electromagnetic background.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.04309,
title = {The gravity of light-waves},
author = {Jan Willem van Holten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04309},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages; contribution to the proceedings of Estate Quantistica (Scalea, 2018)