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Rosen coordinates for a plane gravitational wave

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Rosen coordinates put a plane wave into the transverse-metric form
ds2=−dudv+gAB​(u)dxAdxB.
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For diagonal gAB​=diag(f2,g2), the only potentially nonzero Ricci tensor component is Ruu​=−f′′/f−g′′/g.

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