Published October 15, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric

  • 1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara (Turkey)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara (Turkey)

Description

The collision of pure electromagnetic plane waves with collinear polarization in N-dimensional (N=2+n) Einstein-Maxwell theory is considered. A class of exact solutions for the higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric is obtained and its singularity structure is examined

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 084007-084007.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35082323
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
EINSTEIN-MAXWELL EQUATIONS; EXACT SOLUTIONS; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; METRICS; POLARIZATION; SINGULARITY
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS

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