Download or read book Shock Wave Interactions in General Relativity written by Jeffrey Groah and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a self contained mathematical treatment of the initial value problem for shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations in General Relativity. It has a clearly outlined goal: proving a certain local existence theorem. Concluding remarks are added and commentary is provided throughout. The author is a well regarded expert in this area.