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The C-metric as a colliding plane wave spacetime

J B Griffiths and R G Halburd

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It is explicitly shown that part of the C-metric spacetime inside the black hole horizon may be interpreted as the interaction region of two colliding plane waves with aligned linear polarization, provided the rotational coordinate is replaced by a linear one. This is a one-parameter generalization of the degenerate Ferrari–Ibáñez solution in which the focussing singularity is a Cauchy horizon rather than a curvature singularity.


PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure

04.30.-w Gravitational waves

04.20.Dw Singularities and cosmic censorship

MSC

83C75 Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc.

83C57 Black holes

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 5 (7 March 2007)

Received 19 December 2006, in final form 8 January 2007

Published 1 February 2007



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