Singular Null Hypersurfaces In General Relativity: Light-like Signals From Violent Astrophysical Events

Peter A Hogan, Claude Barrabes (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2004
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-238-737-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.2.2004
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	981-238-737-4 / 9812387374
ISBN-13	978-981-238-737-0 / 9789812387370
Zustand	Neuware