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

• Author(s): Peter A Hogan, Claude Barrabes,
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Pages: 204
• ISBN_10: 9814483370
  ISBN_13: 9789814483377
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Physics / Astrophysics , Science / Physics / Mathematical & Computational , Science / Physics / General ,

Description:... 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.