TRAVELING WAVES IN STRONGLY GRAVITATING COSMIC STRINGS

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作者
GARFINKLE, D
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1990年 / 41卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.41.1112
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We find the metric due to a traveling wave on a strongly gravitating cosmic string. This metric is one of the pp wave solutions to Einstein's equation. In the weak-field limit the metric reduces to the weak-field traveling-wave metric found by Vachaspati. The properties of the metric are examined and are found to agree with those properties proposed by Unruh et al. for strongly gravitating cosmic strings. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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