Differential geometry from differential equations

DOI10.1007/s002200100548zbMath1027.53080arXivgr-qc/0012058WikidataQ115388603 ScholiaQ115388603MaRDI QIDQ5953705

Simonetta Frittelli, Ezra T. Newman, Carlos N. Kozameh

Publication date: 27 January 2002

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012058

zbMATH Keywords

conformal metric; Einstein field equation; light-like geodesics; Lorentz signature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35G20: Nonlinear higher-order PDEs

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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