Abstract
When the coordinate conditions are defined with the help of four differential equations, the equations of the theory of gravitation in characteristic form separate.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 98–100, April, 1981.
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Temchin, A.N. Characteristic form of einstein's equations. Soviet Physics Journal 24, 380–382 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898279
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898279