Incorporation of matter into characteristic numerical relativity
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Nigel T. Bishop, Roberto Gómez, Luis Lehner, Manoj Maharaj, and Jeffrey Winicour Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria 0003, South Africa Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Durban-Westville, Durban 4000, South Africa ~Received 8 December 1998; published 3 June 1999!
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