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Phys. Rev. D 66, 024029 (2002) [4 pages]

Higher dimensional metrics of colliding gravitational plane waves

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M. Gürses*
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey

E. O. Kahya and A. Karasu
Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

Received 24 April 2002; published 24 July 2002

We give a higher even dimensional extension of vacuum colliding gravitational plane waves with the combinations of collinear and noncollinear polarized four-dimensional metrics. The singularity structure of space-time depends on the parameters of the solution.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024029
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024029
PACS:
04.20.Jb, 04.30.-w

*Email address: gurses@fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Email address: kahya@metu.edu.tr

Email address: karasu@metu.edu.tr