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The Aichelburg-Sexl Boost of Domain-Walls and Cosmic Strings

C. Barrabes, P. A. Hogan, W. Israel

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0206021

Abstract

We consider the application of the Aichelburg-Sexl boost to plane and line distributions of matter. Our analysis shows that for a domain wall the space-time after the boost is flat except on a null hypersurface which is the history of a null shell. For a cosmic string we study the influence of the boost on the conical singularity and give the new value of the conical deficit.

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