Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Notations

Preface

Chapter 1 – Introduction (pp. 1-4)

Chapter 2 – Conformal Carter–Penrose Diagrams (pp. 5-10)

Chapter 3 – Thin Shell Formalism (pp. 11-14)

Chapter 4 – Charged Shell with Minkowski Space-time Inside (pp. 15-26)

Chapter 5 – Neutralizing Shell (pp. 27-36)

Chapter 6 – Neutralizing Shell — Capacitor (pp. 37-88)

Chapter 7 – Reissner–Nordstr¨om Metric with Neutral Shell (pp. 89-92)

Chapter 8 – Preliminaries (pp. 93-102)

Chapter 9 – The Effective Potential Method (pp. 103-116)

Chapter 10 – Global Geometries for the Combined Systems (pp. 117-156)

References

Authors’ Contact Information

Index

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Reviews

“One can never learn too much about elementary solutions of General Relativity. In this book, the authors provide a general global description, using Israel matching conditions, of spherically symmetric spacetimes with thin shell sources, charged or neutral, in spacetimes that are themselves asymptotically Schwarzschild or Reissner-Nordstrom, and have various charged/neutral interiors. This book will provide an authoritative, useful, basis for further explorations of the Einstein-Maxwell system, and its extensions both to wider models and more complex sources.” – Stanley Deser, PhD., Professor Emeritus of Physics, Brandeis University, USA

“Thin shells and surface layers are increasingly used to model gravitational collapse and phase transitions in general relativity and cosmology. However, a textbook treatment of these topics is still hard to find in the current literature. This book nicely fills the gap. The techniques are illustrated by focusing on the dynamics of charged spherical shells in a variety of backgrounds. Recommended for students and practitioners who want to add this useful tool to their armory.” – Werner Israel, Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, Canada