Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity

E. Gravanis

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104024

Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity

E. Gravanis

Department of Engineering

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Abstract

Spherically symmetric shock waves are shown to exist in Lovelock gravity. They amount to a change of branch of the spherically symmetric solutions across a null hypersurface. The implications of their existence for the status of Birkhoff's theorem in the theory is discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	104024
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	82
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104024
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2010

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Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity

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