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On gravitational shock waves in curved spacetimes
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Abstract Some years ago Dray and 't Hooft found the necessary and sufficient conditions to introduce a gravitational shock wave in a particular class of vacuum solutions to Einstein's equations. We extend this work to cover cases where non-vanishing matter fields and a cosmological constant are present. The sources of gravitational waves are massless particles moving along a null surface such as a horizon in the case of black holes. After we discuss the general case we give many explicit examples. Among them are the d-dimensional charged black hole (that includes the 4-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom and the d-dimensional Schwarzschild solution as subcases), the 4-dimensional De Sitter and anti-De Sitter spaces (and the Schwarzschild-De Sitter black hole), the 3-dimensional anti-De Sitter black hole, as well as backgrounds with a covariantly constant null Killing vector. We also address the analogous problem for string-inspired gravitational solutions nd give a few examples.
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- Authors
- Sfetsos, K.
- Venue
- Nuclear Physics B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-02
- Volume
- 436
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 721-745
- ISSN
- 0550-3213 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2053781383
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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