This is a condensed version of a talk given at the 6e Scheveningen Conferentie in 1984. Further details as well as some subsequent results can be found in [1] & [2].
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T. Dray and G. 't Hooft, “The Gravitational Shock Wave of a Massless Particle”, Nucl. Phys. B (in press).
T. Dray and G. 't Hooft, “Matter atTevian the Horizon of the Schwarzschild Black Hole”, Comm. Math. Phys. (to appear).
G. 't Hooft, J. Geom. Phys. 1, 45 (1984)
P. C. Aichelburg and R. U. Sexl, J. Gen. Rel. Grav. 2, 303 (1971).
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Dray, T. (1985). Gravitational shock waves. In: Martini, R. (eds) Geometric Aspects of the Einstein Equations and Integrable Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 239. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16039-6_5
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