The collision and snapping of cosmic strings generating spherical impulsive gravitational waves

The Penrose method for constructing spherical impulsive gravitational waves is investigated in detail, including alternative spatial sections and an arbitrary cosmological constant. The resulting waves include those that are generated by a snapping cosmic string. The method is used to construct an e...

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Main Authors: J. Podolsky, Jerry Griffiths
Format: Default Preprint
Published: 2000
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/746
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