Gluing Reissner-Nordstrom Spacetimes along Charged Shells of Matter

1990
9 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 7 (1990) 41-49

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Abstract: (IOP)
The authors generalise the results of Dray and 't Hooft (1986) by showing how to join two or more Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes with different charges and masses along null cylinders representing charged shells of massless matter. Conservation laws are then used to give a rigorous definition of the charge and energy of the shells. They point out that their results are not confined to general relativity but that there is also a special relativistic analogue of a collapsing charged shell.
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