Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant. II. Deviation of geodesics and interpretation of nontwisting type N solutions

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4506-4517

  Bicak, Jiří ^a   Podolský, Jiří ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 0033240764     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.532982     Document Type: Article

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