Higher order poles in the Belinskii-Zakharov inverse scattering method
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-11-1988
Abstract
We analyze the possibility of extending the inverse scattering technique of Belinskii and Zakharov to include higher order poles in the scattering matrix. We find that a part of the original construction is inapplicable in a direct fashion. In particular, we show that the treatment of this issue by Francaviglia and Sgarra is incorrect, and their claimed solutions do not indeed solve the Einstein equations. The same result applies to the Papadopoulos construction for SU(n) Yang-Mills fields. We propose a construction to include higher order poles without inconsistencies, but it proves to be much more involved than the simple pole case. We present an explicit solution with a second order pole built by coalescence of a two-first-order-poles metric. © 1988.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physics Letters A
First Page
206
Last Page
210
Recommended Citation
Gleiser, R., González, G., & Pullin, J. (1988). Higher order poles in the Belinskii-Zakharov inverse scattering method. Physics Letters A, 130 (4-5), 206-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(88)90595-6