Impulsive waves in the Nariai universe

Marcello Ortaggio
Phys. Rev. D 65, 084046 – Published 9 April 2002
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Abstract

A new class of exact solutions is presented which describes impulsive waves propagating in the Nariai universe. It is constructed using a six-dimensional embedding formalism adapted to the background. Because of the topology of the latter, the wave front consists of two nonexpanding spheres. Special subclasses representing pure gravitational waves (generated by null particles with an arbitrary multipole structure) or shells of null dust are analyzed in detail. Smooth isometries of the metrics are briefly discussed. Furthermore, it is shown that the considered solutions are impulsive members of a more general family of radiative Kundt spacetimes of type II. A straightforward generalization to impulsive waves in the anti-Nariai and Bertotti-Robinson backgrounds is described. For a vanishing cosmological constant and electromagnetic field, results for well known impulsive pp waves are recovered.

  • Received 6 November 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084046

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Marcello Ortaggio*

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy

  • *Email address: ortaggio@science.unitn.it

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Vol. 65, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2002

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