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We continue the study of the Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds with boundary initiated by Holst and Tsogtgerel. In particular, we consider the full system and prove existence of solutions in both the near-CMC and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 James Dilts

Numerical solutions to the Einstein constraint equations are constructed on a selection of compact orientable three-dimensional manifolds with non-trivial topologies. A simple constant mean curvature solution and a somewhat more complicated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Fan Zhang , Lee Lindblom

We describe how the iterative technique used by Isenberg and Moncrief to verify the existence of large sets of non constant mean curvature solutions of the Einstein constraints on closed manifolds can be adapted to verify the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 James Isenberg , Jiseong Park

We survey some results on scalar curvature and properties of solutions to the Einstein constraint equations. Topics include an extended discussion of asymptotically flat solutions to the constraint equations, including recent results on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-25 Justin Corvino , Daniel Pollack

Recent works by the second author and Maxwell et al. have shown that the Einstein-scalar field conformal constraint equations are highly complex and generally intractable, even in the vacuum case. In this article, to gain a clearer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Philippe Castillon , Cang Nguyen-The

An algebraic-hyperbolic method for solving the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints has recently been shown to be well posed for general nonlinear perturbations of the initial data for a Schwarzschild black hole. This is a new approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 Jeffrey Winicour

We establish new existence and non-existence results for positive solutions of the Einstein-scalar field Lichnerowicz equation on compact manifolds. This equation arises from the Hamiltonian constraint equation for the Einstein-scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emmanuel Hebey , Frank Pacard , Daniel Pollack

This is the first in a series Of papers in which we initiate the study Of very rough solutions to the initial value problem for the Einstein Vacuum equations expressed relative to wave coordinates. By very rough we mean solutions which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 S. Klainerman , I. Rodnianski

In this paper, we consider very rough solutions to Cauchy problem for the Einstein vacuum equations in CMC spacial harmonic gauge, and obtain the local well-posedness result in $H^s, s>2$. The novelty of our approach lies in that, without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Qian Wang

We follow the approach employed by Y. Choquet-Bruhat, J. Isenberg and D. Pollack in the case of closed manifolds and establish existence and non-existence results for the Einstein-scalar field constraint equations on asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-07 Anna Sakovich

In this note we prove two existence theorems for the Einstein constraint equations on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds. The first is for arbitrary mean curvature functions with restrictions on the size of the transverse-traceless data and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-05 James Dilts , James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Caleb Meier

In this short note, we give a construction of solutions to the Einstein constraint equations using the well known conformal method. Our method gives a result similar to the one in [15, 16, 24], namely existence when the so called TT-tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-23 Romain Gicquaud , Quôc Anh Ngô

Let $M = G/H$ be a connected simply connected homogeneous manifold of a compact, not necessarily connected Lie group $G$. We will assume that the isotropy $H$-module $\mathfrak {g/h}$ has a simple spectrum, i.e. irreducible submodules are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Michail M. Graev

We review the properties of the constraint equations, from their geometric origin in hypersurface geometry through to their roles in the Cauchy problem and the Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein equations. We then review properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Bartnik , Jim Isenberg

The resolution of the nonlinear stability of black holes as solutions to the Einstein equations relies crucially on imposing the right geometric gauge conditions. In the vacuum case, the use of Generally Covariant Modulated (GCM) spheres…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Allen Juntao Fang , Elena Giorgi , Jingbo Wan

This article is dedicated to solving the Einstein constraint equations with apparent horizon boundaries and freely specified mean curvature. The main novelty is that we study the conformal constraint equations assuming only low regularity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Jean-David Pailleron

Einstein equations are addressed with the energy-momentum tensor that appears if the equations under discussion are required to possess conformal invariance. It is proved that thus derived equations (equations of conformally invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Gorbatenko

The conformal formulation provides a method for constructing and parametrizing solutions of the Einstein constraint equations by mapping freely chosen sets of conformal data to solutions, provided a certain set of coupled, elliptic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 James Isenberg , Niall Ó Murchadha

The effectiveness of the hyperbolic relaxation method for solving the Einstein constraint equations numerically is studied here on a variety of compact orientable three-manifolds. Convergent numerical solutions are found using this method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Fan Zhang , Lee Lindblom

We study the appearance of multiple solutions to certain decompositions of Einstein's constraint equations. Pfeiffer and York recently reported the existence of two branches of solutions for identical background data in the extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Niall Ó Murchadha , Harald P. Pfeiffer