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Can someone provide some resources (books, notes, articles etc.) on Gravitational Soliton (specially on the Belinski–Zakharov transform)?

I've found only the following two reference from the Wikipedia references:

  1. Belinskii, V.; Zakharov, V. $(1978)$. "Integration of the Einstein Equations by Means of the Inverse Scattering Problem Technique and Construction of Exact Soliton Solutions". Sov. Phys. JETP. $48~(6):~985–994$. ISSN $0038-5646$.
  2. Belinski, V.; Verdaguer, E. ($2001$). Gravitational Solitons. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics.

I'm searching for a few more.

NOTE: Wikipedia is saying,

The Belinski–Zakharov (inverse) transform is a nonlinear transformation that generates new exact solutions of the vacuum Einstein's field equation. It was developed by Vladimir Belinski and Vladimir Zakharov in $1978$.$^{[1]}$ The Belinski–Zakharov transform is a generalization of the inverse scattering transform. The solutions produced by this transform are called gravitational solitons (gravisolitons).

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For the details of the Belinski–Zakharov transform I would recommend this paper of theirs, published the year following the one you already found:

  • V.A. Belinskii, V.E. Zakharov, Stationary gravitational solitons with axial symmetry, Sov. Phys. JETP, 50(1), 1-9, (1979)

It can be hard to find PDFs of these papers, and honestly best place I have found to get them is on this conference website: zakharov75.itp.ac.ru/zve75/tt/publications.

Starting in the early 2000s their methods were generalized to higher dimensions, to reproduce Myers-Perry black holes, construct black saturn solutions, etc. Many of those newer papers have nice reviews of inverse scattering methods in GR (e.g. the Belinski–Zakharov transform). See for example

  • arXiv:hep-th/0507250
  • arXiv:hep-th/0701035

The book "Exact Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations" also tends to be a great reference for solution generating methods in GR.

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