Product Description: The Hyperboloidal Foliation Method introduced in this monograph is based on a (3 + 1) foliation of Minkowski spacetime by hyperboloidal hypersurfaces. This method allows the authors to establish global-in-time existence results for systems of nonlinear wave equations posed on a curved spacetime...read more

Product Description: After its demise in 1976, the Cultural Revolution has been conventionally portrayed as an era of political persecution, a ?cultural desert,? an ascetic regime, and a decade of total chaos. Contested memories of this period, however, appeared in literary writings of the 1990s: memories that placed in the foreground self-motivated learning, sexual indulgence, juvenile adventure and mundane living...read more