Reduction of the characteristic initial value problem to the Cauchy problem and its applications to the Einstein equations

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1990.0009zbMath0701.35149OpenAlexW2110477814MaRDI QIDQ3478900

Alan D. Rendall

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1990.0009

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemEinstein equationscharacteristic initial value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45)

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