Vincent Moncrief

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Who is Vincent Moncrief?

Vincent Edward Moncrief is an American mathematician and physicist at Yale University. He works in relativity and mathematical physics. Moncrief earned his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Maryland College Park under the supervision of Charles William Misner and worked subsequently at the University of California Berkeley and at the University of Utah. He grew up in Oklahoma City.

A key result was to relate the reduced Hamiltonian for Einstein's equations to a topological invariant known as the Yamabe invariant for the spatial manifold and to show that the reduced Hamiltonian is monotonically decreasing along all solutions of the field equations and therefore evidently seeking to attain its infimum which in turn is expressible in terms of the sigma constant. A discussion of this and related work may be found in Moncrief's and Choquet-Bruhat's lectures at the Cargese summer school on 50 years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity.

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  • United States of America
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  • University of Maryland, College Park

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on July 23, 2013

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