Einstein–Rosen metric

General relativity
${\displaystyle G_{\mu \nu }+\Lambda g_{\mu \nu }={\kappa }T_{\mu \nu }}$
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In general relativity, the Einstein–Rosen metric is an exact solution to the Einstein field equations derived in 1937 by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. It is the first exact solution to describe the propagation of a gravitational wave.

This metric can be written in a form such that the Belinski–Zakharov transform applies, and thus has the form of a gravitational soliton.

In 1972 and 1973, J. R. Rao, A. R. Roy, and R. N. Tiwari published a class of exact solutions involving the Einstein–Rosen metric.

In 2021 Robert F. Penna found an algebraic derivation of the Einstein–Rosen metric.

In the history of science, one might consider as a footnote to the Einstein–Rosen metric that Einstein, for some time, believed that he had found a non-existence proof for gravitational waves.