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    James W.

    York
    James W. York Jr. (born July 3, 1939 in Raleigh, North Carolina, died December 17, 2023 in Raleigh,
    North Carolina) was an American mathematical physicist who contributed to the theory of general
    relativity. In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field
    equation exist, and answering this question was a theme of York's scientific work, with Yvonne Choquet-
    Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of
    partial differential equations.

    York earned his B.Sc. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1966 from North Carolina State University.[1]

    York used conformal geometry in the initial value problem, and introduced concepts now called the York
    curvature and York time.

    York was a recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the American
    Physical Society, where he was a Fellow.

    See also
    Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

    References
    1. James W. York (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=101160) at the Mathematics
    Genealogy Project
    "Profile at APS" (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Ja
    mes&last_nm=York&year=2003). Retrieved October 1, 2012.
    York, J. W. (1971). "Gravitational degrees of freedom and the initial-value problem". Phys.
    Rev. Lett. 26 (26): 1656–1658. Bibcode:1971PhRvL..26.1656Y (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.ed
    u/abs/1971PhRvL..26.1656Y). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.1656 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2
    FPhysRevLett.26.1656).
    York, J. W. (1973). "The role of conformal 3-geometry in the dynamics of gravitation". Phys.
    Rev. Lett. 28 (16): 1082–1085. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..28.1082Y (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.ed
    u/abs/1972PhRvL..28.1082Y). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.1082 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2
    FPhysRevLett.28.1082).
    Ó Murchadha, N., York, J. W. (1974). "Initial-value problem of general relativity I - General
    formulation and physical interpretation". Phys. Rev. D. 10 (2): 428–436.
    Bibcode:1974PhRvD..10..428O (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhRvD..10..428O).
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.10.428 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevD.10.428).
    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_W._York&oldid=1217530199"

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