Spherical shock waves in general relativity
| dc.citation.epage | 3168 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issueNumber | 10 | en_US |
| dc.citation.spage | 3164 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 44 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Nutku, Y. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-08T10:56:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-08T10:56:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | en_US |
| dc.department | Department of Mathematics | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | We present the metric appropriate to a spherical shock wave in the framework of general relativity. This is a Petrov type-N vacuum solution of the Einstein field equations where the metric is continuous across the shock and the Riemann tensor suffers a step-function discontinuity. Spherical gravitational waves are described by type-N Robinson-Trautman metrics. However, for shock waves the Robinson-Trautman solutions are unacceptable because the metric becomes discontinuous in the Robinson-Trautman coordinate system. Other coordinate systems that have so far been introduced for describing Robinson-Trautman solutions also suffer from the same defect. We shall present the C0-form of the metric appropriate to spherical shock waves using Penrose's approach of identification with warp. Further extensions of Penrose's method yield accelerating, as well as coupled electromagnetic-gravitational shock-wave solutions. © 1991 The American Physical Society. | en_US |
| dc.description.provenance | Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-08T10:56:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 bilkent-research-paper.pdf: 70227 bytes, checksum: 26e812c6f5156f83f0e77b261a471b5a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevD.44.3164 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0556-2821 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26183 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.44.3164 | en_US |
| dc.source.title | Physical Review D | en_US |
| dc.title | Spherical shock waves in general relativity | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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