Lorentzian metrics from characteristic surfaces

DOI10.1063/1.531209MaRDI QIDQ4873369zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 16 April 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502025, http://cds.cern.ch/record/276823

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeconformal metricLorentz metricfamily of null hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The following issue is raised and discussed; when do families of foliations by hypersurfaces on a given four dimensional manifold become the null surfaces of some unknown, but to be determined, metric $g_{ab}(x)$? It follows from these results that one can use these surfaces as fundamental variables for GR.

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