12–17 Sept 2016
Szczecin, Poland
Europe/Warsaw timezone

On a nonlinear gravitational wave

12 Sept 2016, 17:10
30m
Room 5

Room 5

Szczerbcowa 4, 70-503 Szczecin

Speaker

Dr Hristu Culetu (Ovidius University)

Description

An exact, plane wave solution of the gravitational field equations is investigated. The source stress tensor is represented by an anisotropic null fluid with energy flux to which the energy density $\rho$ and the pressure $p_{z}$ are negative but finite throughout the spacetime. They depend on a constant length (taken of the order of the Planck length) and acquire Planck values close to the null surface $t - z = 0$, z-axis being the direction of propagation. The timelike geodesics of a test particle are contained in a plane whose normal has constant direction and the null trajectories are comoving with a plane of fixed direction.

Author

Dr Hristu Culetu (Ovidius University)

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