Homogeneous wavefront of a plane gravitational wave

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Homogeneous wavefront of a plane gravitational wave by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
For a Brinkmann plane wave whose transverse profile is quadratic, Killing fields obtained from solutions of transverse oscillator equations act transitively on every constant-retarded-time wavefront. Each wavefront is therefore a homogeneous null hypersurface.

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