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arxiv: 1310.1322 · v2 · pith:AMVLVHCRnew · submitted 2013-10-04 · 🌀 gr-qc · math-ph· math.MP

The regularity of geodesics in impulsive pp-waves

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keywords 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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