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Rosen coordinates for a plane gravitational wave
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2026-09-28
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Rosen coordinates put
a
plane wave
into the transverse-
metric
form
d
s
2
=
−
d
u
d
v
+
g
A
B
(
u
)
d
x
A
d
x
B
.
(1)
For
diagonal
g
A
B
=
diag
(
f
2
,
g
2
)
, the only potentially nonzero
Ricci tensor
component is
R
uu
=
−
f
′′
/
f
−
g
′′
/
g
.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge
/
2024
/
iii
/
Paper 357
/
3
/
d
/
Solution
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