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On the crossing of thin shells

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The crossing of two dust shells is considered as a simplified model of a collapsing thick layer of dust. We use the Israel's formalism to describe the development of two shells of dust which interact only gravitationally. The formalism is developed in both Schwarzschild and Kruskal coordinates.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Math. and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00, Praha 8, Czech Republic

    A. Eid

  2. Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Math. and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00, Praha 8, Czech Republic

    J. Langer

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Eid, A., Langer, J. On the crossing of thin shells. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 50, 1081–1095 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022806715991

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