Abstract
After reviewing the current understanding of relativistic shock waves, a detailed analysis of relativistic detonation waves is presented. It is proposed that the motion of a detonation wave is analogous to the growth of a bubble nucleated during false vacuum decay at finite temperatures. Some possible applications of these results to cosmology are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2074-2085 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1982 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)