# Editorial note to: On the Newtonian limit of Einstein’s theory of gravitation (by Jürgen Ehlers)

@article{Buchert2019EditorialNT,
title={Editorial note to: On the Newtonian limit of Einstein’s theory of gravitation (by J{\"u}rgen Ehlers)},
author={Thomas Buchert and Thomas Madler},
journal={General Relativity and Gravitation},
year={2019}
}
• Published 26 October 2019
• Physics
• General Relativity and Gravitation
We give an overview of literature related to Jurgen Ehlers’ pioneering 1981 paper on Frame theory—a theoretical framework for the unification of general relativity and the equations of classical Newtonian gravitation. This unification encompasses the convergence of one-parametric families of four-dimensional solutions of Einstein’s equations of General relativity to a solution of equations of a Newtonian theory if the inverse of a causality constant goes to zero. As such the corresponding light…
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