Cylindrical gravitational waves in expanding universes: Models for waves from compact sources

Robert H. Gowdy, B. Douglas Edmonds

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Abstract

New boundary conditions are imposed on the familiar cylindrical gravitational wave vacuum spacetimes. The new spacetime family represents cylindrical waves in a flat expanding (Kasner) universe. Space sections are flat and nonconical where the waves have not reached and wave amplitudes fall off more rapidly than they do in Einstein-Rosen solutions, permitting a more regular null inifinity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number084011
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume75
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 5 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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