Publications on General Relativity

I. Gravitational Waves

Nutku, Y. and M. Halil, ``Colliding impulsive gravitational waves" Phys. Rev. Lett. 39 (1977) 1379

Nutku, Y. and R. Penrose, ``On impulsive gravitational waves" Twistor Newsletter 34 (1992) 9

Nutku, Y., ``Spherical shock waves in general relativity" Phys. Rev. D 44 (1991) 3164

Nutku, Y. , ``Harmonic Map Formulation of Colliding Electrovac Plane Waves", in Directions in General Relativity, Papers in honor of Charles Misner B. L. Hu, M. P. Ryan Jr. and C. V. Vishveshwara editors Cambridge University Press 1993
 

II. Gravitational Instantons

Nutku, Y. ``Covariant symplectic structure of the complex Monge-Ampere equation" Physics Letters A 268 (2000) 293

Nutku, Y., ``Gravitational Instantons and Minimal Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 4702

Aliev, A. N., J. Kalayci and Y. Nutku ``General Minimal Surface Solution for Gravitational Instantons" Phys. Rev. D 56 (1997) 1332

Nutku, Y., M. B. Sheftel' and A. A. Malykh ``Gravitational Instantons", Classical and Quantum Gravity 14 (1997) L59

Aliev, A. N. and Y. Nutku, ``Gravitational Instantons admit hyper-Kahler structure" Classical and Quantum Gravity 16 (1999) 189

Aliev, A. N, J. Kalayci, M. Hortacsu and Y. Nutku, ``Gravitational instantons from minimal surfaces" Classical and Quantum Gravity 16 (1999) 631

Nutku, Y., M. B. Sheftel', A. A. Malykh and P. Winternitz ``Invariant Solutions to Complex Monge-Ampere Equation and Gravitational Instantons" Yadernaya Fisica 61 (1998) 1874

III Topologically Massive Gravity

Nutku, Y. and P. Baekler, ``Homogeneous, anisotropic three-manifolds of topologically massive gravity" Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 195 (1989) 16

Nutku, Y. , ``Exact solutions of topologically massive gravity with a cosmological constant" Classical and Quantum Gravity 10 (1993) 2657

Aliev A. N. and Y. Nutku, ``Spinor formulation of topologically massive gravity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 12 (1995) 2913

Aliev A. N. and Y. Nutku, ``A theorem on topologically massive gravity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 13 (1996) L 29

Aliev, A. N., Y. Nutku and K. Saygili, ``Topologically massive magnetic monopoles", Classical and Quantum Gravity 17 (2000) 4111

IV Miscellaneous

Chandrasekhar, S. and Y. Nutku, ``The second post-Newtonian equations of hydrodynamics in general relativity" Ap. J. 158 (1969) 55

Berger, B. K., D. M. Chitre, V. E. Moncrief and Y. Nutku, ``Hamiltonian formulation of spherically symmetric gravitational fields" Phys. Rev. D 5 (1972) 2467

Matzner, R. A. and Y. Nutku, ``On the method of virtual quanta and gravitational radiation" Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) A 336 (1974) 285

Nutku, Y., ``Geometry of dynamics in general relativity" Ann. Inst. H. Poincare A 21 (1974) 175

Nutku, Y., ``Comment on `Collision of plane gravitational waves without singularities'" Phys. Rev. D 24 (1981) 1040

Nutku, Y., ``The scattering of two Yang-Mills plane waves" J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 16 (1983) L583
 

Matzner, R. A. and Y. Nutku, ``Stationary, axi-symmetric solutions of the Einstein field equations" Ap. J. 167 (1971) 149

Chitre, D. M., R. Guven and Y. Nutku, ``Static, cylindrically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations" J. Math. Phys. 16 (1975) 475

Ibrahim, A. and Y. Nutku, ``Generalized Einstein static universe" Gen. Rel. and Grav. 7 (1976) 949

Eris, A. and Y. Nutku, ``Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds and stationary vacuum spacetimes with whole cylinder symmetry" J. Math. Phys. 16 (1975) 1431

Matzner, R. A. and Y. Nutku, ``Pair production by gravitational waves in the field of a black hole" Phys. Lett. A 60 (1977) 5

Nutku, Y., ``Post-Newtonian equations of hydrodynamics in the Brans-Dicke theory" Ap. J. 155 (1969) 999

Nutku, Y., ``The energy-momentum complex in the Brans-Dicke theory" Ap. J. 158 (1969) 991