The regularity of geodesics in impulsive pp-waves

DOI10.1007/S10714-013-1648-0MaRDI QIDQ2447435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Lecke, Roland Steinbauer, R. Švarc

Publication date 25 April 2014

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1322

zbMATH Keywords

Carathéodory-solutionsgeodesicsimpulsive \(pp\)-waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Gravitational waves (83C35) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We consider the geodesic equation in impulsive pp-wave space-times in Rosen form, where the metric is of Lipschitz regularity. We prove that the geodesics (in the sense of Caratheodory) are actually continuously differentiable, thereby rigorously justifying the $C^1$-matching procedure which has been used in the literature to explicitly derive the geodesics in space-times of this form.

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