Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Wei
• Ernst, Frederick J.

Titel

A family of electrovac colliding wave solutions of Einstein’s equations

Ist Teil von

• Journal of mathematical physics, 1989-03, Vol.30 (3), p.678-682

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Beginning with any colliding wave solution of the vacuum Einstein equations, a corresponding electrified colliding wave solution can be generated through the use of a transformation due to Harrison [J. Math. Phys. 9, 1744 (1968)]. The method, long employed in the context of stationary axisymmetric fields, is equally applicable to colliding wave solutions. Here it is applied to a large family of vacuum metrics derived by applying a generalized Ehlers transformation to solutions published recently by Ernst, García, and Hauser (EGH) [J. Math. Phys. 2 8, 2155, 2951 (1987); 2 9, 681 (1988)]. Those EGH solutions were themselves a generalization of solutions first derived by Ferrari, Ibañez, and Bruni [Phys. Rev. D 3 6, 1053 (1987)]. Among the electrovac solutions that are obtained is a charged version of the Nutku–Halil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 3 9, 1379 (1977)] metric that possesses an a r b i t r a r y complex charge parameter.