Published October 15, 2003
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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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.084007;
- arXiv
- arXiv:gr-qc/0305105v2;
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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- Notes
- (c) 2003 The American Physical Society