Hyperbolic equations for vacuum gravity using special orthonormal frames

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/5/025MaRDI QIDQ4341009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. B. Estabrook, R. Steve Robinson, Hugo D. Wahlquist

Publication date 26 October 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703072

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan formalismfirst-order symmetric hyperbolic PDEvacuum Einstein equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: By adopting Nester's higher dimensional special orthonormal frames (HSOF) the tetrad equations for vacuum gravity are put into first order symmetric hyperbolic (FOSH) form with constant coefficients, independent of any time slicing or coordinate specialization.

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