STABILITY OF THE QUASI-REGULAR SINGULARITIES IN BELL-SZEKERES SPACETIME

被引:7
作者
KONKOWSKI, DA [1 ]
HELLIWELL, TM [1 ]
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[1] HARVEY MUDD COLL,DEPT PHYS,CLAREMONT,CA 91711
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1991年 / 43卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.43.609
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The behavior of geodesics and test minimally coupled scalar waves on the Bell-Szekeres spacetime is used to probe the nature of the quasiregular singularities present. Components of the stress-energy tensor in a parallel-propagated orthonormal frame diverge as does a stress-energy scalar at the quasiregular singularities. It is argued that this divergence makes the singularities unstable, converting them into scalar curvature singularities.
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