The stability of Killing–Cauchy horizons in colliding plane wave space-times
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It is confirmed rigorously that the Killing–Cauchy horizons, which sometimes occur in spacetimes representing the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background, are unstable with respect to bounded perturbations of the initial waves, at least for the case in which the initial waves have constant aligned polarizations.
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