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Gravitational Tunnelling of Relativistic Shells

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Thin shells in general relativity have been used in the past as keystones to obtain realistic models of cosmological and astrophysical situations. A crucial role for these developments was played by the compact description of their dynamics in terms of Israel's junction conditions. Starting from this geometrical formulation we present a problem related to the WKB regime of shell dynamics and suggest a possible solution.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0411042,
  title  = {Gravitational Tunnelling of Relativistic Shells},
  author = {Stefano Ansoldi and Lorenzo Sindoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0411042},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, 3 EPS figures, to appear in the proceddings of the 6th International Symposium on Frontiers in Fundamental and Computational Physics (FFP6), September 26-29, Udine, ITALY