Gowdy universes or, alternatively, Gowdy solutions of Einstein's equations are simple model spacetimes in general relativity which represent an expanding universe filled with a regular pattern of gravitational waves.

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• Gowdy, Robert (2014). "Gowdy Spacetimes". Scholarpedia . 9 (3): 31673. Bibcode:2014SchpJ...931673G. doi: 10.4249/scholarpedia.31673 .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
• Gowdy, Robert H. (2007). "Of gravitational waves and spherical chickens". Einstein Online . Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2007-07-30. – a description of the different types of Gowdy universes suitable for a general audience

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