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Memory Effect for Impulsive Gravitational Waves
P. -M. Zhang, C. Duval, P. A. Horvathy
Impulsive gravitational plane waves, which have a delta-function singularity on a hypersurface, can be obtained by squeezing smooth plane gravitational waves with Gaussian profile.…
Soft Gravitons & the Memory Effect for Plane Gravitational Waves
P. -M. Zhang, C. Duval, G. W. Gibbons +1
The "gravitational memory effect" due to an exact plane wave provides us with an elementary description of the diffeomorphisms associated with soft gravitons. It is explained how t…
The Memory Effect for Plane Gravitational Waves
P. M. Zhang, C. Duval, G. W. Gibbons +1
We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact descripti…
Carroll symmetry of plane gravitational waves
C. Duval, G. W. Gibbons, P. A. Horvathy +1
The well-known 5-parameter isometry group of plane gravitational waves in dimensions is identified as Levy-Leblond's Carroll group in dimensions with no rotations. Our cl…