Wednesday, December 5, 2012

1212.0138 (Xuefeng Zhang et al.)

Interpretation of twisting type N vacuum solutions with cosmological
constant
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Xuefeng Zhang, Daniel Finley
We investigate a new class of twisting type N vacuum solutions with nonzero (positive) cosmological constant Lambda by studying the equations of geodesic deviations along the privileged radial timelike geodesics, generalizing J. Bicak and J. Podolsky's results on non-twisting type N solutions. It is shown that these twisting radiative spacetimes can be interpreted as exact transverse gravitational waves propagating in the de-Sitter universe, with a distinctive feature that all the wave amplitudes are proportional to Lambda. Moveover, we demonstrate the cosmic no-hair conjecture in these spacetimes and discuss their Killing horizons.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0138

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