Full Description
The book is about exact space-time models of the gravitational fields produced by gravitational radiation. The authors' extensive work in the field is reviewed in order to stimulate the study of such models, that have been known for a long time, and to highlight interesting physical aspects of the existing models in some novel detail. There is an underlying simplicity to the gravitational radiation studied in this book. Apart from the basic assumption that the radiation has clearly identifiable wave fronts, the gravitational waves studied are directly analogous to electromagnetic waves. The book is meant for advanced students and researchers who have a knowledge of general relativity sufficient to carry out research in the field.
Contents
Introduction.- Plane Fronted Gravity Waves.- Plane Fronted Electromagnetic Waves.- 'Spherical' Gravity Waves.- Plane Fronted Limit of 'Spherical' Waves.- Plane Fronted Waves with a Cosmological Constant.- Gravity Wave Perturbations in Cosmology.- Exact Gravity Waves in Cosmology.- A Intersections of H+ 3 with Hyperplanes.- B Equations Satisfied by Gauge Invariant Variables.- Index.
