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Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant. II. Deviation of geodesics and interpretation of nontwisting type N solutions

Bičák, Jiřı́, Podolský, Jiřı́·1999·Journal of Mathematical Physics

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In a suitably chosen essentially unique frame tied to a given observer in a general spacetime, the equation of geodesic deviation can be decomposed into a sum of terms describing specific effects: isotropic (background) motions associated with the cosmological constant, transverse motions corresponding to the effects of gravitational waves, longitudinal motions and Coulomb-type effects. Conditions under which the frame is parallelly transported along a geodesic are discussed. Suitable coordinates are introduced and an explicit coordinate form of the frame is determined for spacetimes admitting a nontwisting null congruence. Specific properties of all nontwisting type N vacuum solutions with cosmological constant Λ (nonexpanding Kundt class and expanding Robinson–Trautman class) are then analyzed. It is demonstrated that these spacetimes can be understood as exact transverse gravitational waves of two polarization modes “+” and “×,” shifted by π/4, which propagate “on” Minkowski, de Sitter or anti-de Sitter backgrounds. It is also shown that the solutions with Λ>0 may serve as exact demonstrations of the cosmic “no-hair” conjecture in radiative spacetimes with no symmetry.

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Authors
Bičák, J., & Podolský, J.
Venue
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Published
1999-09-01
Volume
40
Issue
9
Pages
4506-4517
ISSN
  • 0022-2488
  • 1089-7658
Cited by
52
References
2
Language
en

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