Higher dimensional metrics of colliding gravitational plane waves

Physical Review D

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Gurses M ^a   Kahya, E O ^b   Karasu, A ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; SPACE; TIME; VACUUM;

EID: 0037101446     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024029     Document Type: Article

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