On the stability of accelerating relativistic shock waves
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acceleratingregimerelativisticself-similarshockconcludeconsidercorrect
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We consider the corrugation instability of the self-similar flow with an accelerating shock in the highly relativistic regime. We derive the correct dispersion relation for the proper modes in the self-similar regime, and conclude that this solution is unstable.
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