David Garfinkle 1999 Class. Quantum Grav. 16 4101 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/324
David Garfinkle
Show affiliationsThis paper considers metrics whose curvature tensor makes sense as a distribution. A class of such metrics, the regular metrics, was defined and studied by Geroch and Traschen. Here, we generalize their definition to form a wider class: semi-regular metrics. We then examine in detail two metrics that are semi-regular but not regular: (a) Minkowski spacetime minus a wedge and (b) a certain travelling wave metric.
83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
Issue 12 (December 1999)
Received 21 June 1999, in final form 25 August 1999
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