Higher Dimensional Metrics of Colliding Gravitational Plane Waves

TL;DR

This paper extends the study of colliding gravitational plane waves to higher even dimensions, analyzing how the singularity structure varies with different parameters in these solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a higher-dimensional extension of vacuum colliding gravitational plane waves combining collinear and non-collinear polarization.

Findings

Singularity structure depends on solution parameters

Higher-dimensional models generalize four-dimensional solutions

Provides new insights into gravitational wave interactions in higher dimensions

Abstract

We give a higher even dimensional extension of vacuum colliding gravitational plane waves with the combinations of collinear and non-collinear polarized four-dimensional metric. The singularity structure of space-time depends on the parameters of the solution.