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Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events
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Artikel-Nr:
9789812387370
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.02.2004
Seiten:
204
Autor:
Peter A Hogan
Gewicht:
508 g
Format:
232x155x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the mathematical theory of impulsive light-like signals in general relativity. Applications are provided in relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and alternative theories of gravity deduced from string theory. Cataclysmic astrophysical events give rise to impulsive light-like signals which can generally be decomposed into a thin shell of null matter and an impulsive gravitational wave. Several examples are considered in black hole physics, wave collisions and light-like boosts of compact gravitating sources. Graduate students and researchers in relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and string theory will find this book very useful.
General Description of an Impulsive Light-Like Signal; Illustrations and Implications of the Bianchi Identities; Light-Like Boosts; Spherically Symmetric Null Shells; Collisions of Plane Impulsive Light-Like Signals; Impulsive Light-Like Signals in Alternative Theories of Gravity.