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Gravitational radiation, source behavior, and the method of matched asymptotic expansions

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It is conjectured that a suitably modified Bondi-type expansion of the gravitational field in the radiation zone is a rapidly convergent series. It is also conjectured that the source behavior in the inner zone is insensitive to the initial conditions imposed on the gravitational field in solving the initial-value problem in this zone. Consequences of these conjectures for the problem of relating source motion to the Bondi news function are discussed.

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Anderson, J.L. Gravitational radiation, source behavior, and the method of matched asymptotic expansions. Found Phys 15, 411–418 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889277

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