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Creating spacetime shortcuts with gravitational waveforms

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arxiv 1602.01439 v1 pith:T7U4QRU2 submitted 2016-02-02 gr-qc

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keywords geodesicsgravitationalfieldinsidemoveregionspacetimewave
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A region-delimited gravitational wave field can be constructed, such that a subset of geodesics crossing this region will move faster than nearby geodesics moving entirely inside flat spacetime, along a preferred direction. Null geodesics inside this region will move faster-than-light according to far away observers. The waveform is synthesized from homogeneous plane wave solutions, and the resulting field is the gravitational equivalent of a Gaussian beam.

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