文档介绍：Springer Monographs in Mathematics
Jeffrey Groah
Joel Smoller
Blake Temple
Shock Wave Interactions in
General Relativity
A Locally Inertial Glimm Scheme for
Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
Jeffrey Groah Joel Smoller
Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics
Montgomery College University of Michigan
Conroe, TX 77384 Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA USA
Blake Temple
Institute of Theoretical Dynamics
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 35L65, 35L67, 83C05
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006932412
ISBN-10: 0-387-35073-X e-ISBN-10: 0-387-44602-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-35073-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-44602-8
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Preface
General relativity is the modern theory of the gravitational field. It is a deep
subject that couples fluid dynamics to the geometry of spacetime through
the Einstein equations. The subject has seen a resurgence of interest recently,
partly because of the spectacular satellite data that continues to shed new light
on the nature of the universe...Einstein’s theory of gravity is still the basic
theory we have to describe the expanding universe of galaxies. But the Einstein