The Aichelburg-Sexl Boost of Domain-Walls and Cosmic Strings

Abstract

We consider the application of the Aichelburg-Sexl boost to plane and line distributions of matter. Our analysis shows that for a domain wall the space-time after the boost is flat except on a null hypersurface which is the history of a null shell. For a cosmic string we study the influence of the boost on the conical singularity and give the new value of the conical deficit.

Latex File, 12 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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