Characteristic Evolution and Matching
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- 8 May 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Living Reviews in Relativity
- Vol. 1 (1) , 1-39
- https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-1998-5
Abstract
We review the development of numerical evolution codes for general relativity based upon the characteristic initial value problem. Progress is traced fromKeywords
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