GR via characteristic surfaces

DOI10.1063/1.531210MaRDI QIDQ4873370zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simonetta Frittelli, Ezra T. Newman, 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, http://cds.cern.ch/record/276826

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimegeneral relativityconformal metricLorentz metriceth operatorfamily of null hypersurfacesnull Gauss coordinates

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: We reformulate the Einstein equations as equations for families of surfaces on a four-manifold. These surfaces eventually become characteristic surfaces for an Einstein metric (with or without sources). In particular they are formulated in terms of two functions on R4xS2, i.e. the sphere bundle over space-time, - one of the functions playing the role of a conformal factor for a family of associated conformal metrics, the other function describing an S2's worth of surfaces at each space-time point. It is from these families of surfaces themselves that the conformal metric - conformal to an Einstein metric - is constructed; the conformal factor turns them into Einstein metrics. The surfaces are null surfaces with respect to this metric.

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