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Ultrarelativistic limit of the boosted Schwarzschild metric away from the null plane
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Boost
a
Schwarzschild
mass
with
speed
v
and hold
p
=
mγ
fixed
as
v
→
1
. Away from the null
plane
x
=
t
, the isotropic-coordinate expression tends to
d
s
2
=
d
s
Minkowski
2
+
∣
x
−
t
∣
4
p
(
d
t
−
d
x
)
2
.
(1)
The complete distributional limit on the null
plane
requires the additional coordinate
treatment
that produces the Aichelburg-Sexl
shock wave
.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge
/
2018
/
ii
/
Paper 3
/
38E
/
c
/
Solution
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