GR via characteristic surfaces

DOI10.1063/1.531210zbMATH Open0848.53045arXivgr-qc/9502028OpenAlexW2155241170MaRDI QIDQ4873370FDOQ4873370

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

Publication date: 27 October 1996

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502028

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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)

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