The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields
Subtitle: 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780817671303
Subjects: Relativity; Science
First sentence: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's epic work of over 50 years ago shows that if a set of smooth initial data which satisfies the Einstein constraint equations is given, then we can always find a spacetime solution of the Einstein equations which contains an embedded hypersurface whose metric and second fundamental form agree with the chosen data.