On the dynamics of characteristic surfaces

DOI10.1063/1.531250zbMath0858.53058OpenAlexW1964095972MaRDI QIDQ4871947

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

Publication date: 10 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531250

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsconformal metricsphere of null directionsvacuum Einstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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Cites Work

• Green’s functions of the edh operators
• Lorentzian metrics from characteristic surfaces
• GR via characteristic surfaces
• Linearized Einstein theory via null surfaces
• The vacuum and Bach equations in terms of light cone cuts

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