Institute for Mathematical Physics a Rigorous Solution Concept for Geodesic and Geodesic Deviation Equations in Impulsive Gravitational Waves a Rigorous Solution Concept for Geodesic and Geodesic Deviation Equations in Impulsive Gravitational Waves
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The geodesic as well as the geodesic deviation equation for impulsive gravi-tational waves involve highly singular products of distributions (, 2 , 2). A solution concept for these equations based on embedding the distributional metric into the Colombeau algebra of generalized functions is presented. Using a universal regularization procedure we prove existence and uniqueness results and calculate the distributional limits of these solutions explicitly. The obtained limits are regularization independent and display the physically expected behavior.
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A rigorous solution concept for geodesic and geodesic deviation equations in impulsive gravitational waves
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