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Niederer's transformation, time-dependent oscillators and polarized gravitational waves

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arxiv 1810.06541 v3 pith:2GX6HUCF submitted 2018-10-15 gr-qc hep-thmath-phmath.MP

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keywords conformalgravitationalinterestingniedereroscillatorspolarizedtime-dependenttransformation
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It is noted that the Niederer transformation can be used to find the explicit relation between time-dependent linear oscillators, including the most interesting case when one of them is harmonic. A geometric interpretation of this correspondence is provided by certain subclasses of pp-waves; in particular the ones strictly related to the proper conformal transformations. This observation allows us to show that the pulses of plane gravitational wave exhibiting the maximal conformal symmetry are analytically solvable. Particularly interesting is the circularly polarized family for which some aspects (such as the classical cross section, velocity memory effect and impulsive limit) are discussed in more detail. The role of the additional integrals of motion, associated with the conformal generators, is clarified by means of Ermakov-Lewis invariants. Possible applications to the description of interaction of electromagnetic beams with matter are also indicated.

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