Test field in a sandwich wave spacetime. (English) Zbl 0878.53059
Summary: Sandwich waves in the Einstein-Maxwell theory are expressed globally by introducing step functions at the boundaries. We show that a test particle crossing such a wave zone extracts energy from the sandwich wave.
MSC:
53Z05 | Applications of differential geometry to physics |
83C22 | Einstein-Maxwell equations |
83C35 | Gravitational waves |