Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity

Details Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity

2010-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3583v2

Phys.Rev.D82:104024,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, no figures, clarifying changes made in the text of section III and references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104024

Spherically symmetric shock waves are shown to exist in Lovelock gravity.
They amount to a change of branch of the spherically symmetric solutions across
a null hypersurface. The implications of their existence for the status of
Birkhoff's theorem in the theory is discussed.

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