GR via characteristic surfaces

DOI10.1063/1.531210zbMath0848.53045arXivgr-qc/9502028OpenAlexW2155241170MaRDI QIDQ4873370

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

Publication date: 27 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502028

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeconformal metricgeneral relativityLorentz metriceth operatorfamily of null hypersurfacesnull Gauss coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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