Plane Waves and Penrose Limits

Blau, M. Plane Waves and Penrose Limits.

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https://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/lecturesPP.pdf

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Domain-specific

• Brinkmann Coordinates
  • Penrose's limiting construction associates a plane-wave geometry to a neighborhood of a chosen null geodesic; the resulting wave is often expressed in Brinkmann form because its transverse tidal matrix is immediately visible.

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