General numerical solution of cylindrical gravitational waves
- 15 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 32 (12) , 3101-3107
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.32.3101
Abstract
We study numerically the propagation and interaction of vacuum cylindrical gravitational waves of both polarization modes. The evolution can be described in terms of two effects: the usual cylindrical reflections and a rotation of the polarization vector of the waves, which appears when the × polarization mode is present.Keywords
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