A canonical null gauge for the Einstein equations
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A canonical null gauge for the Einstein equations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0968.83011
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001972216250
author: R. Bartnik
author: G. Oganessyan
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 2000-11-05T00:00:00Z
review text: A null tetrad is constructed which is determined uniquely by purely local information, the metric and its first derivatives. That leads to a radial coordinate. These properties simplify the structure of the hypersurface Einstein equations.
reviewed by: Johannes Viktor Feitzinger
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C20
zbMATH DE Number: 1525522
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein equations
zbMATH Keywords: null geometry
zbMATH Keywords: characteristic coordinates
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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