Colliding Plane Waves with W = M = 0
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It is shown that there are three vacuum and one electrovacuum solutions of diagonal plane waves with M = 0 and constant Maxwell scalars. Namely, these are the single wave, Stoyanov, Babala and Bell-Szekeres solutions. A comparison is made with the planar solutions of Taub.
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