Shock Wave Interactions in General Relativity and the Emergence of Regularity Singularities

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2011-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1803v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

This is my dissertation (UC Davis), it contains all the proofs omitted in the corresponding (summarizing) paper: M. Reintjes a

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We show that the regularity of the gravitational metric tensor cannot be lifted from $C^{0,1}$ to $C^{1,1}$ by any $C^{1,1}$ coordinate transformation in a neighborhood of a point of shock wave interaction in General Relativity, without forcing the determinant of the metric tensor to vanish at the point of interaction. This is in contrast to Israel's Theorem \cite{Israel} which states that such coordinate transformations always exist in a neighborhood of a point on a smooth {\it single} shock surface. The results thus imply that points of shock wave interaction represent a new kind of singularity in spacetime, singularities that make perfectly good sense physically, that can form from the evolution of smooth initial data, but at which the spacetime is not {\it locally Minkowskian} under any coordinate transformation. In particular, at such singularities, delta function sources in the second derivatives of the gravitational metric tensor exist in all coordinate systems, but due to cancelation, the curvature tensor remains uniformly bounded.

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