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Abrupt Changes in the Multipole Moments of a Gravitating Body
C. Barrabès, G. F. Bressange, P. A. Hogan
An example is described in which an asymptotically flat static vacuum Weyl space-time experiences a sudden change across a null hypersurface in the multipole moments of its isolate…
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Colliding Plane Waves in Einstein-Maxwell Theory
C. Barrabès, G. F Bressange, P. A. Hogan
Recently a simple solution of the vacuum Einstein-Maxwell field equations was given describing a plane electromagnetic shock wave sharing its wave front with a plane gravitational…