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Construction of N-body time-symmetric initial data sets in general relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-09-08 v1

Abstract

Given a collection of N asymptotically Euclidean ends with zero scalar curvature, we construct a Riemannian manifold with zero scalar curvature and one asymptotically Euclidean end, whose boundary has a neighborhood isometric to the disjoint union of a specified collection of sub-regions of the given ends. An application is the construction of time-symmetric solutions of the constraint equations which model N-body initial data.

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@article{arxiv.0909.1101,
  title  = {Construction of N-body time-symmetric initial data sets in general relativity},
  author = {Piotr T. Chruściel and Justin Corvino and James Isenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1101},
  year   = {2009}
}