 Rosen coordinates for a plane gravitational wave (source code)

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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
$$
ds^2=-du\,dv+g_{AB}(u)dx^A dx^B.
$$
For diagonal $g_{AB}=\operatorname{diag}(f^2,g^2)$, the only potentially nonzero <Ricci tensor> component is $R_{uu}=-f''/f-g''/g$.

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