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Least action principle and gravitational double layer

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-03-20 v1

Abstract

The higher derivative gravitational theories exhibit new phenomena absent in General Relativity. One of them is the possible formation of the so called double layer which is the pure gravitational phenomenon and can be interpreted, in a sense, as the gravitational shock wave. In this paper we show how some very important features of the double layer equations of motion can be extracted straight from the least action principle.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06405,
  title  = {Least action principle and gravitational double layer},
  author = {Victor Berezin and Vyacheslav Dokuchaev and Yury Eroshenko and Alexei Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06405},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages

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