Several aspects of applying distributions to analysis of gravitational shock waves in general relativity

St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-345

  Aref'Eva, I Ya ^a   Bagrov, A A ^a   Joukovskaya, L V ^b  

^a STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ds space time; Gravitational waves; Regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861824919     PISSN: 10610022     EISSN: 15477371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S1061-0022-2011-01144-6     Document Type: Article

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