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Cylindrical gravitational waves with two degrees of freedom: An exact solution

1986; American Physical Society; Volume: 34; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.34.331

1538-4500

Tsvi Piran, Pedro N. Safier, Jonathan L. Katz,

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

The exact two-parameter solution of Einstein's equations described below represents ingoing and outgoing cylindrical gravitational waves with two degrees of polarization. It has been obtained from the Kerr metric by applying a well-known trick but, unlike the Kerr metric, it has no singularities.