Characteristic initial data and wavefront singularities in general relativity

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1983.0018MaRDI QIDQ3658791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1983.0018

zbMATH Keywords

caustics and selfintersectionscharacteristic initial value probleminfinite light-like pastMinkowski-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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