A MODEL PROBLEM FOR THE INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE FORMULATION OF EINSTEIN'S FIELD EQUATIONS

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 397-435

  Reula, Oscar ^a   Sarbach, Olivier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

initial boundary value formulation; Maxwell equations; well posedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144475179     PISSN: 02198916     EISSN: 17936993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219891605000488     Document Type: Article

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