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Review
. 1998;1(1):3.
doi: 10.12942/lrr-1998-3. Epub 1998 Jan 26.

Hyperbolic Methods for Einstein's Equations

Oscar A Reula  1
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Hyperbolic Methods for Einstein's Equations

Oscar A Reula. Living Rev Relativ. 1998.

Abstract

I review evolutionary aspects of general relativity, in particular those related to the hyperbolic character of the field equations and to the applications or consequences that this property entails. I look at several approaches to obtaining symmetric hyperbolic systems of equations out of Einstein' equations by either removing some gauge freedoms from them, or by considering certain linear combinations of a subset of them.

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