A disintegrating cosmic string

We present a simple sandwich gravitational wave of the Robinson–Trautman family. This is interpreted as representing a shock wave with a spherical wavefront which propagates into a Minkowski background minus a wedge. (i.e. the background contains a cosmic string.) The deficit angle (the tension) of...

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Main Authors: Jerry Griffiths, Peter Docherty
Format: Default Preprint
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/453
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