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The development of classical field theory led first to the Maxwell equations, which are a linear system of hyperbolic equations for the electromagnetic potential, and then to the Einstein equations, which are instead a non-linear system of hyperbolic equations.
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Esposito, G. (2017). Linear Systems of Normal Hyperbolic Form. In: From Ordinary to Partial Differential Equations. UNITEXT(), vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57544-5_19
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