Nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves with an arbitrary cosmological constant

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-4

  Podolsky J ^a   Griffiths, J B ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(anti )de Sitter space; Impulsive gravitational waves

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES;

(ANTI-)DE SITTER SPACE; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; CUT-AND-PASTE; EXACT SOLUTION; IMPULSIVE WAVES; MINKOWSKI; PP-WAVE; UNIFIED APPROACH;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0346615723     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00524-1     Document Type: Article

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