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This paper was the first announcement of results later elaborated in detail in the more extensive 1952 paper by the same author (now Prof. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat). They provide a very important theorem on the uniqueness of solutions of the initial value problem for the Einstein equations. This showed that Einstein’s theory shared the property of other physical theories that the evolution of the system is unique given the initial “position” and “velocity”, which here are the Cauchy data for the metric and its derivative.
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Meeting of 6 February 1950.
Translator’s note: A misprint in this equation has been corrected. Thanks to T. Damour for pointing the mistake out.
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Yvonne Fourès-Bruhat: Théorème d’existence pour les équations de la gravitation einsteinienne dans le cas non analytique. Comptes Rendues Acad. Sci. Paris 230, 618 (1950). https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3182n/f618.image
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Fourès-Bruhat, Y. Republication of: Existence theorem for the Einsteinian gravitational field equations in the non-analytic case. Gen Relativ Gravit 54, 35 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-022-02917-4
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