Shock-wave solutions in closed form and the Oppenheimer-Snyder limit in general reality

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-33

  Smoller, Joel ^a   Temple, Blake ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential geometry; General relativity; Hyperbolic conservation laws shock waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EINSTEIN EQUATIONS; FRIEDMANN ROBERTSON WALKER (FRW) METRICS; OPPENHEIMER TOLMAN (OT) METRICS;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0031999596     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139996297936     Document Type: Article

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