ON BOOSTED SPACE-TIMES WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT AND THEIR ULTRARELATIVISTIC LIMIT

Abstract

The problem of deriving a shock-wave geometry with cosmological constant by boosting a Schwarzschild-de Sitter (or anti-de Sitter) black hole is re-examined. Unlike previous works in the literature, we deal with the exact Schwarzschild-de Sitter (or anti-de Sitter) metric. In this exact calculation, where the metric does not depend linearly on the mass parameter, we find a singularity of distributional nature on a null hypersurface, which corresponds to a shock-wave geometry derived in a fully non-perturbative way. The result agrees with previous calculations, where the metric had been linearized in the mass parameter.