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THE EXISTENCE THEOREM FOR THE GENERAL RELATIVISTIC CAUCHY PROBLEM ON THE LIGHT-CONE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2014

PIOTR T. CHRUŚCIEL*
Affiliation:
I.H.É.S., Bures sur Yvette, France University of Vienna, Austria; piotr.chrusciel@univie.ac.at

Abstract

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We prove existence of solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with initial data induced by a smooth metric on a light-cone.

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