Abstract
Spherically symmetric shock waves are shown to exist in Lovelock gravity. They amount to a change of branch of the spherically symmetric solutions across a null hypersurface. The implications of their existence for the status of Birkhoff’s theorem in the theory is discussed.
- Received 15 September 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104024
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