A note on the Penrose junction conditions

Details A note on the Penrose junction conditions A note on the Penrose junction conditions

1998-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811007v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 16 (1999) 1255-1264

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, RevTeX, no figures, final version (typos corrected, references updated)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/16/4/013

Impulsive pp-waves are commonly described either by a distributional spacetime metric or, alternatively, by a continuous one. The transformation $T$ relating these forms clearly has to be discontinuous, which causes two basic problems: First, it changes the manifold structure and second, the pullback of the distributional form of the metric under $T$ is not well defined within classical distribution theory. Nevertheless, from a physical point of view both pictures are equivalent. In this work, after calculating $T$ als well as the ''Rosen''-form of the metric in the general case of a pp-wave with arbitrary wave profile we give a precise meaning to the term ``physically equivalent'' by interpreting $T$ as the distributional limit of a suitably regularized sequence of diffeomorphisms. Moreover, it is shown that $T$ provides an example of a generalized coordinate transformation in the sense of Colombeau's generalized functions.

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