1 Introduction

Hyperbolic Methods for Einstein's Equations

Oscar A. Reula
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, FaMAF
Ciudad Universitaria
5000 Córdoba, Argentina
reula@fis.uncor.edu
http://surubi.fis.uncor.edu/reula

(Accepted 15 January 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's equations by either removing some gauge freedoms from them, or by considering certain linear combinations of a subset of them.



1 Introduction

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Oscar A. Reula
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