THE GENERAL-SOLUTION TO THE EINSTEIN EQUATIONS ON A NULL SURFACE

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HAYWARD, SA [1 ]
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[1] MAX PLANCK INST ASTROPHYS, W-8046 GARCHING, GERMANY
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10.1088/0264-9381/10/4/012
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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On a null 3-surface, the general solution to the vacuum Einstein equations is found in closed form in terms of free initial data. The solution is valid up to caustics, whose occurrence is determined by a necessary and sufficient condition on the initial data.
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