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While there exist now formulations of initial boundary value problems for Einstein's field equations which are well posed and preserve constraints and gauge conditions, the question of geometric uniqueness remains unresolved. For two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Helmut Friedrich

We introduce a set of constraint preserving boundary conditions for the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) formulation of the Einstein evolution equations in spherical symmetry, based on its hyperbolic structure. While the outgoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Miguel Alcubierre , Jose M. Torres

In this article we continue our effort to do a systematic development of the solution theory for conformal formulations of the Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds with boundary. By building in a natural way on our recent work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-22 M. Holst , C. Meier , G. Tsogtgerel

The principle part of Einstein equations in the harmonic gauge consists of a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. A new formulation of constraint-preserving boundary conditions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 M. C. Babiuc , H-O. Kreiss , Jeffrey Winicour

A persistent challenge in numerical relativity is the correct specification of boundary conditions. In this work we consider a many parameter family of symmetric hyperbolic initial-boundary value formulations for the linearized Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gioel Calabrese , Olivier Sarbach

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations in the maximal gauge, or more generally, in a gauge where the mean curvature of a timelike foliation is fixed near the boundary. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

Global stability of the spherically symmetric nonisentropic compressible Euler equations with positive density around global-in-time background affine solutions is shown in the presence of free vacuum boundaries. Vacuum is achieved despite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Calum Rickard

We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

The focus of this work is on the construction of a family of nonlinear absorbing boundary conditions for the Westervelt equation in one and two space dimensions. The principal ingredient used in the design of such conditions is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Igor Shevchenko

Shibata, Ury\=u and Friedman recently suggested a new decomposition of Einstein's equations that is useful for constructing initial data. In contrast to previous decompositions, the conformal metric is no longer treated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Gregory B. Cook , Thomas W. Baumgarte

A new representation of the Einstein evolution equations is presented that is first order, linearly degenerate, and symmetric hyperbolic. This new system uses the generalized harmonic method to specify the coordinates, and exponentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Lee Lindblom , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Robert Owen , Oliver Rinne

We construct asymptotically Euclidean solutions of the vacuum Einstein constraint equations with an apparent horizon boundary condition. Specifically, we give sufficient conditions for the constant mean curvature conformal method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 David Maxwell

Initial-boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear partial differential equations have become tractable in recent years due to the development of so-called unified transform techniques. The main obstruction to applying these methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Peter D. Miller , Zhenyun Qin

Discrepancies between theory and recent qBounce data have prompted renewed scrutiny of how boundary conditions are implemented for ultracold neutrons bouncing above a mirror in Earth's gravity. We apply the theory of self-adjoint extensions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Eric J. Sung , Benjamin Koch , Tobias Jenke , Hartmut Abele , Denys I. Bondar

In this paper we discuss a new approach to the quasinormal-mode problem in general relativity. By combining a characteristic formulation of the perturbation equations with the integration of a suitable phase-function for a complex valued…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lars Samuelsson , Nils Andersson , Asimina Maniopoulou

The stationary, axisymmetric reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations, the so-called Ernst equation, is an integrable nonlinear PDE in two dimensions. There now exists a general method for analyzing boundary value problems for integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Lenells , A. S. Fokas

This paper is concerned with the Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition. We construct a unique global solution and obtain its large time asymptotic behavior in the case that the initial data is close enough to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Yan Guo , Shuangqian Liu

Einstein's system of equations in the ADM decomposition involves two subsystems of equations: evolution equations and constraint equations. For numerical relativity, one typically solves the constraint equations only on the initial time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolae Tarfulea

We prove global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic (wave) coordinate gauge for the set of restricted data coinciding with Schwartzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity. The result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Hans Lindblad , Igor Rodnianski

We consider the stability of the toroidal AdS-Schwarzshild black holes as solutions of the Einstein--Klein-Gordon system, with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions for the scalar field. Restricting to perturbations that respect the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Jake Dunn , Claude Warnick