Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events

Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events

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This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the mathematical theory of impulsive light-like signals in general relativity. Applications are provided in relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and alternative theories of gravity deduced from string theory. Cataclysmic astrophysical events give rise to impulsive light-like signals which can generally be decomposed into a thin shell of null matter and an impulsive gravitational wave. Several examples are considered in black hole physics, wave collisions and light-like boosts of compact gravitating sources. Graduate students a...