Abstract
The “mechanism” of nonuniqueness of the solution to the problem with initial conditions for the equations of the free gravitational field is elucidated.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 32–34, September, 1980.
I thank V. L. Bonch-Bruevich, N. S. Kardashov, and I. D. Novikov for interest and assistance.
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Temchin, A.N. On the Cauchy problem foe Einstein's equations. Soviet Physics Journal 23, 776–778 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892523
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