Remembering Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-09-03 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
I describe the impact of some of the mathematical results of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat on gravitational physics, as well as the evolution of my interactions with her over the years.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.00597,
title = {Remembering Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat},
author = {Thibault Damour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00597},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures. Contribution to a special issue of the notices of the American Mathematical Society honoring the memory of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025)