DUAL-NULL DYNAMICS OF THE EINSTEIN FIELD

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HAYWARD, SA
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[1] Max Planck Inst. fur Astrophys., Garching-Munchen
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10.1088/0264-9381/10/4/013
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P1 [天文学];
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The Einstein gravitational field is decomposed with respect to two intersecting foliations of null surfaces. The dynamics are cast in the form of suitably generalized Lagrangian and Hamiltonian theories. The vacuum Einstein equations are written in terms of geometrical fields and operators adapted to the null foliations. There are no constraints. The free initial data are identified.
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