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Geodesics and geodesic deviation for impulsive gravitational waves
The geometry of impulsive pp-waves is explored via the analysis of the geodesic and geodesic deviation equation using the distributional form of the metric. The geodesic equation involves formally ill-defined products of distributions due to the nonlinearity of the equations and the presence of the Dirac Ī“-distribution in the spaceātime ā¦