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In the first part of this chapter we briefly present the main notions of differential geometry that we are going to use systematically throughout the book. We also describe, in some detail, results connected to the symmetry properties of Einstein spacetimes. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the introduction of the initial value problem in general relativity and to give a short survey of the main results on this subject. Finally we give a first description, in broad terms, of the central results of this book, and we compare them with the result of D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman in [Ch-Kl].
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Klainerman, S., Nicolò, F. (2003). Introdution. In: The Evolution Problem in General Relativity. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 25. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2084-8_1
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