PP-WAVES (the original article)

2002/05/06 by Asher Peres · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 3 (1959) 571

arxiv created 2002/05/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

PP-waves have recently been of interest to string theorists. This is the original, hard to find, original article on plane polarized gravitational waves.

Discussions

• I have done a little bit in relation to the geometry of the Peres spacetime, with associated metric $$\text{d}s^2=c^2\text{d}t^2-\text dx^2-\text dy^2-\text dz^2-2f(x,y,z+ct)(\text dz +\text dt)^2$$ i [stackexchange, 1 points]

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