Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-12-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Spherically symmetric shock waves are shown to exist in Lovelock gravity. They amount to a change of branch of the spherically symmetric solutions across a null hypersurface. The implications of their existence for the status of Birkhoff's theorem in the theory is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.3583,
title = {Shock waves and Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity},
author = {Elias Gravanis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3583},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures, clarifying changes made in the text of section III and references added