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The pp-wave metrics describe various types of gravitational waves and are given by:
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u
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d
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d
y
2
{\displaystyle ds^{2}=H(u,x,y)du^{2}+2dudv+dx^{2}+dy^{2}}
where
H
{\displaystyle H}
plane gravitational waves and are obtained by choosing
H
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x
y
{\displaystyle H(u,x,y)=a(u)x^{2}+b(u)y^{2}+c(u)xy}
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is a function of at most 3 variables. An important class of pp-waves are the 