NULL SURFACES AND CONTACT GEOMETRY

DOI10.1142/S0219891605000506zbMATH Open1082.35153WikidataQ115245271 ScholiaQ115245271MaRDI QIDQ5314535FDOQ5314535

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

Publication date: 5 September 2005

Published in: Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein vacuum equationscontact geometrynull surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

Cites Work

• Differential geometry from differential equations
• Differential equations and conformal geometry
• Theory of light cone cuts of null infinity
• On the dynamics of characteristic surfaces
• Linearized Einstein theory via null surfaces
• The vacuum and Bach equations in terms of light cone cuts
• Lorentzian metrics from characteristic surfaces
• Conformal Lorentzian metrics on the spaces of curves and 2-surfaces
• 2-geometries and the Hamilton–Jacobi equation
• 3-geometries and the Hamilton–Jacobi equation
• The eikonal equation, envelopes and contact transformations

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