Numerical relativity. II. Numerical methods for the characteristic initial value problem and the evolution of the vacuum field equations for space‒times with two Killing vectors

DOI10.1098/rspa.1983.0041zbMath0541.65090OpenAlexW2126336343MaRDI QIDQ3327684

John M. Stewart, R. W. Corkill

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1983.0041

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsSchwarzschildKilling vectorsspace-timesnumerical relativityvacuum field equationscolliding plane wave space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

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