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Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 826–829 (1971)

Gravitational Waves in Closed Universes

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Robert H. Gowdy
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

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Received 30 July 1971; published in the issue dated 20 September 1971

New boundary conditions on the Einstein-Rosen-Bondi gravitational-wave metrics yield closed inhomogeneous universes which solve Einstein's vacuum field equations exactly. Space sections of these universes have either the three-sphere topology S3 or the wormhole (hypertorus) topology S1S2.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.826
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.826
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Erratum: Robert H. Gowdy, Gravitational Waves in Closed Universes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 1102 (1971).