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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
ds2=dsMinkowski2​+∣x−t∣4p​(dt−dx)2.
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The complete distributional limit on the null plane requires the additional coordinate treatment that produces the Aichelburg-Sexl shock wave.

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