Generalized functions and distributional curvature of cosmic strings

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/013MaRDI QIDQ4894744zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 7 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605060

zbMATH Keywords

delta functiongeneralized functionsdistributional curvaturescalar curvature density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Topological linear spaces of test functions, distributions and ultradistributions (46F05)

Abstract: A new method is presented for assigning distributional curvature, in an invariant manner, to a space-time of low differentiability, using the techniques of Colombeau's `new generalised functions'. The method is applied to show that curvature of a cone is equivalent to a delta function. The same is true under small enough perturbations.

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