Memories of Gravitational Shockwaves
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| author | Fursaev, Dmitri V. |
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| contents | Gravitational shockwaves produce perturbations of field systems. We study classical scalar and electromagnetic fields and gravitational memory effects left after the action on the fields of plane-fronted gravitational shockwaves. The gravitational memory plays a key role for the choice of Cauchy data which determine the perturbations. We demonstrate that field systems`remember' only a spatial `profile' of the shock, but not the form of the signal. Moreover the dependence on the spatial profile can be expressed in a geometric way as a transformation of fields under coordinate supertranslations defined near the shockwave front. We also discuss applications of our results to astrophysics. |
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| spellingShingle | Memories of Gravitational Shockwaves Fursaev, Dmitri V. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Gravitational shockwaves produce perturbations of field systems. We study classical scalar and electromagnetic fields and gravitational memory effects left after the action on the fields of plane-fronted gravitational shockwaves. The gravitational memory plays a key role for the choice of Cauchy data which determine the perturbations. We demonstrate that field systems`remember' only a spatial `profile' of the shock, but not the form of the signal. Moreover the dependence on the spatial profile can be expressed in a geometric way as a transformation of fields under coordinate supertranslations defined near the shockwave front. We also discuss applications of our results to astrophysics. |
| title | Memories of Gravitational Shockwaves |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22238 |