Colliding Plane Waves in General Relativity

by Jerry Griffiths

The text of the complete book (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1991) is available here in pdf format.

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Elements of general relativity
Chapter 3. Colliding impulsive gravitational waves
Chapter 4. Plane waves
Chapter 5. Geometrical considerations
Chapter 6. The field equations
Chapter 7. Boundary conditions
Chapter 8. Singularity structure
Chapter 9. The Szekeres class of vacuum solutions
Chapter 10. Other vacuum solutions with aligned polarization
Chapter 11. Ernst's equation for colliding gravitational waves
Chapter 12. Solution-generating techniques
Chapter 13. Vacuum solutions with non-aligned polarization
Chapter 14. The initial value problem
Chapter 15. Colliding electromagnetic waves: the Bell-Szekeres solution
Chapter 16. Ernst's equation for colliding electromagnetic waves
Chapter 17. Colliding electromagnetic waves: exact solutions
Chapter 18. Colliding electromagnetic waves: diagonal solutions
Chapter 19. Electromagnetic waves colliding with gravitational waves
Chapter 20. Other sources
Chapter 21. Related results
Chapter 22. Conclusions and prospects
Appendix. Coordinate systems
References
Index
Errata

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Last modified 13 October 2004