This paper concerns the motion of relativistic membranes in the Schwarzschild spacetime. A nonlinear wave equation is derived and investigated for relativistic membranes moving in the Schwarzschild spacetime, and spherical symmetric solutions for the motion are obtained and studied systematically. Some interesting physical phenomena are discovered and illustrated.
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