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Equivalence of Darmois-Israel and Distributional-Methods for Thin Shells in General Relativity

R. Mansouri, M. Khorrami

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9608029

Abstract

A distributional method to solve the Einstein's field equations for thin shells is formulated. The familiar field equations and jump conditions of Darmois-Israel formalism are derived. A carefull analysis of the Bianchi identities shows that, for cases under consideration, they make sense as distributions and lead to jump conditions of Darmois-Israel formalism.

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