On the Geroch-Traschen class of metrics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-06-07 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We compare two approaches to Semi-Riemannian metrics of low regularity. The maximally "reasonable" distributional setting of Geroch and Traschen is shown to be consistently contained in the more general setting of nonlinear distributional geometry in the sense of Colombeau.
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@article{arxiv.0811.1376,
title = {On the Geroch-Traschen class of metrics},
author = {Roland Steinbauer and James A. Vickers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1376},
year = {2011}
}
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