Some higher-dimensional vacuum solutions

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Gurses M., Karasu A.

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, cilt.18, sa.3, ss.509-516, 2001 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2001
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1088/0264-9381/18/3/310
  • Dergi Adı: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.509-516
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We study an even-dimensional manifold with a pseudo-Riemannian metric with arbitrary signature and arbitrary dimensions. We consider the Ricci flat equations and present a procedure to construct solutions to some higher(even-) dimensional Ricci flat field equations from the four-dimensional Ricci flat metrics. When the four-dimensional Ricci flat geometry corresponds to a colliding gravitational vacuum spacetime our approach provides an exact solution to the vacuum Einstein field equations for colliding gravitational plane waves in an (arbitrary) even-dimensional spacetime. We give explicitly higher-dimensional Szekeres metrics and study their singularity behaviour.