On colliding waves that develop time-like singularities: a new class of solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equation

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan ; Xanthopoulos, Basilis C. (1987) On colliding waves that develop time-like singularities: a new class of solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equation Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences, 410 (1839). pp. 311-336. ISSN 1364-5021

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Abstract

Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations are found that provide generalizations of a solution discovered by Bell and Szekeres, which represents the collision of impulsive gravitational waves coupled with electromagnetic shock-waves in a conformally flat space-time. Starting with the Bell-Szekeres solution in a form more general than their original one (though equivalent to it) and applying to it a so-called Ehlers transformation, we obtain a new family of Petrov type-D space-times in which horizons form and subsequently two-dimensional time-like singularities develop. A second solution provides a generalization of the Bell-Szekeres solution in the same way as the axisymmetric distorted static black-hole solutions provide a generalization of the Schwarzschild solution. This second solution also forms a horizon but the time-like singularity that develops is three-dimensional. The mathematical theory that is developed seems specially adapted to the solution of these and related problems.

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