A note on the Penrose junction conditions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/4/013zbMath0934.83022arXivgr-qc/9811007WikidataQ59310133 ScholiaQ59310133MaRDI QIDQ4699916

Roland Steinbauer, Michael Kunzinger

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811007

zbMATH Keywords

pp-waves; Colombeau's generalized functions; plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C35: Gravitational waves

46F30: Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.)

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