Equations for general shells

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2018)134zbMATH Open1404.83008arXiv1805.03582MaRDI QIDQ1635237FDOQ1635237

Authors: José M. M. Senovilla 

Publication date: 18 December 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The complete set of (field) equations for shells of arbitrary, even changing, causal character are derived in arbitrary dimension. New equations that seem to have never been considered in the literature emerge, even in the traditional cases of everywhere non-null, or everywhere null, shells. In the latter case there arise field equations for some degrees of freedom encoded exclusively in the distributional part of the Weyl tensor. For non-null shells the standard Israel equations are recovered but not only, the additional relations containing also relevant information. The results are applicable to a widespread literature on domain walls, branes and braneworlds, gravitational layers, impulsive gravitational waves, and the like. Moreover, they are of a geometric nature, and thus they can be used in any theory based on a Lorentzian manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03582

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityD-branesimpulsive gravitational wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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