NULL SURFACES AND CONTACT GEOMETRY

DOI10.1142/S0219891605000506MaRDI QIDQ5314535zbMATHWikidataFDO

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

Publication date 5 September 2005

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

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)

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