Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events

Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events

Yazar : Peter A. Hogan Claude Barrabes
Yayınevi : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN : 9789812387370
Baskı yılı : 2003
Sayfa sayısı : 204
Ağırlık : 0.51 kg
Stok durumu : Tükendi   
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.
Preface
1 Introduction 1
2 General description of an impulsive light-like signal 13
3 Illustrations and implications of the Bianchi identities 29
4 Light-like boosts of gravitating bodies 75
5 Spherically symmetric null shells 109
6 Collisions of plane impulsive light-like signals 131
7 Impulsive light-like signals in alternative theories of gravity 163
App. A : notation 179
App. B Singular hypersurfaces : the non-null case 181
Bibliography 187