Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8186678 | Physics Letters B | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Plane gravitational waves can admit a sixth 'screw' isometry beyond the usual five. The same is true of plane electromagnetic waves. From the point of view of integrable systems, a sixth isometry would appear to over-constrain particle dynamics in such waves; we show here, though, that no effect of the sixth isometry is independent of those from the usual five. Many properties of particle dynamics in a screw-symmetric gravitational wave are also seen in a (non-plane-wave) electromagnetic vortex; we make this connection explicit, showing that the screw-symmetric gravitational wave is the classical double copy of the vortex.
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Authors
A. Ilderton,