Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity
Subtitle: Light-Like Signals from Violent Astrophysical Events
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789812387370
Subjects: Relativity physics; Physics; Hypersurfaces; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Mathematical Physics; General relativity (Physics); Mathematics
First sentence: J. L. Synge constructed the earliest model in General Relativity of a light-like, spherical shell expanding into a vacuum, which he published under the provocative title [Synge (1957)] "A Model in General Relativity for the Instantaneous Transformation of a Massive Particle into Radiation".