1997/10/08 by C. Barrabès, G. F Bressange, P. A. Hogan
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Lett.Math.Phys. 43 (1998) 263-265 · 3 pages, TeX, no figures, to appear in Lett. Math. Phys
arxiv created 1997/10/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Recently a simple solution of the vacuum Einstein-Maxwell field equations was given describing a plane electromagnetic shock wave sharing its wave front with a plane gravitational impulse wave. We present here an exact solution of the vacuum Einstein-Maxwell field equations describing the head-on collision of such a wave with a plane gravitational impulse wave. The solution has the Penrose-Khan solution and a solution obtained by Griffiths as separate limiting cases.