The regularity of geodesics in impulsive pp-waves
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🌀 gr-qc
math-phmath.MP
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geodesicsformimpulsiveregularityspace-timesactuallybeencaratheodory
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We consider the geodesic equation in impulsive pp-wave space-times in Rosen form, where the metric is of Lipschitz regularity. We prove that the geodesics (in the sense of Caratheodory) are actually continuously differentiable, thereby rigorously justifying the $C^1$-matching procedure which has been used in the literature to explicitly derive the geodesics in space-times of this form.
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