WSPC - SINGLR NULL HYPERSFS IN GEN RELA
SINGULAR NULL HYPERSURFACES IN GENERAL RELATIVITY: LIGHT-LIKE SIGNALS FROM VIOLENT ASTROPHYSICAL EVENTS
| Organization: | WSPC |
| Publication Date: | 3 February 2004 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 205 |
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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.
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