TOPICAL REVIEW: From geometry to numerics: interdisciplinary aspects in mathematical and numerical relativity
Résumé
This paper reviews some aspects in the current relationship between mathematical and numerical general relativity. Focus is placed on the description of isolated systems, with a particular emphasis on recent developments in the study of black holes. Ideas concerning asymptotic flatness, the initial-value problem, the constraint equations, evolution formalisms, geometric inequalities and quasi-local black hole horizons are discussed in light of the interaction between numerical and mathematical relativists.