Traveling waves in strongly gravitating cosmic strings

Journal Article · Thu Feb 15 04:00:00 EST 1990 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.1112· OSTI ID:6997176

Garfinkle, D ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (US)

We find the metric due to a traveling wave on a strongly gravitating cosmic string. This metric is one of the {ital 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 {ital et} {ital al}. for strongly gravitating cosmic strings.

• OSTI ID: 6997176
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA) Vol. 41:4; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
FIELD EQUATIONS
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
INTERACTIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
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NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PERTURBATION THEORY
PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
TRAVELLING WAVES
VACUUM STATES