Generalized functions and distributional curvature of cosmic strings

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/013MaRDI QIDQ4894744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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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 functiondistributional curvaturegeneralized functionsscalar curvature density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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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