%0 Journal Article %T Conical Space-times: a Distributional Theory Approach %A F. Dahia %A C. Romero %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0217732399001954 %X We consider the problem of calculating the Gaussian curvature of a conical 2-dimensional space by using concepts and techniques of distribution theory. We apply the results obtained to calculate the Riemannian curvature of the 4-dimensional conical space-time. We show that the method can be extended for calculating the curvature of a special class of more general space-times with conical singularity. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801109v1