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
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics