Higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric

M. Gürses, Y. İpekoğlu, A. Karasu, and Ç. Şentürk
Phys. Rev. D 68, 084007 – Published 22 October 2003
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Abstract

The collision of pure electromagnetic plane waves with collinear polarization in N-dimensional (N=2+n) Einstein-Maxwell theory is considered. A class of exact solutions for the higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric is obtained and its singularity structure is examined.

  • Received 4 June 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.084007

©2003 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. Gürses*

  • Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey

Y. İpekoğlu, A. Karasu, and Ç. Şentürk§

  • Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

  • *Email address: gurses@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
  • Email address: ipekoglu@metu.edu.tr
  • Email address: karasu@metu.edu.tr
  • §Email address: e126967@metu.edu.tr

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Vol. 68, Iss. 8 — 15 October 2003

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