Phys. Rev. D 68, 084007 (2003) [5 pages]

Higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric

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

Y. İpekoğlu^†, A. Karasu^‡, and Ç. Şentürk^§
Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

Received 4 June 2003; published 22 October 2003

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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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.084007

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.084007

PACS:

04.20.Jb, 04.30.-w

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

^†Email address: ipekoglu@metu.edu.tr

^‡Email address: karasu@metu.edu.tr

^§Email address: e126967@metu.edu.tr

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Phys. Rev. D 68, 084007 (2003) [5 pages]

Higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric