A snapping cosmic string in a de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe

We present and describe an exact solution of Einstein’s equations which represents a snapping cosmic string in a vacuum background with a cosmological constant Λ. The snapping of the string generates an impulsive spherical gravitational wave which is a particular member of a known family of such wav...

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Main Authors: J. Podolsky, Jerry Griffiths
Format: Default Preprint
Published: 2004
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/237
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