Well-posed geometric boundary data in General Relativity, III: conformal-volume boundary data
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-12-30 v2 Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
Abstract
In this third work in a series, we prove the local-in-time well-posedness of the IBVP for the vacuum Einstein equations in general relativity with twisted DIrichlet boundary conditions on a finite timelike boundary. The boundary conditions consist of specification of the pointwise conformal class of the boundary metric, together with a scalar density involving a combination of the volume form of the bulk metric restricted to the boundary together with the volume form of the boundary metric itself.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.15567,
title = {Well-posed geometric boundary data in General Relativity, III: conformal-volume boundary data},
author = {Zhongshan An and Michael T. Anderson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15567},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
20 pages. Minor changes to introduction to improve exposition. References added