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We investigate the stability of timelike Ricci curvature lower bounds under low-regularity limits of Lorentzian metrics. Specifically, we prove that the synthetic curvature-dimension condition $TCD^e_p(K,N)$, which provides an optimal…

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We consider weakly regular Gowdy-symmetric spacetimes on T3 satisfying the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity, and we solve the initial value problem when the initial data set has bounded variation, only, so that the…

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Caustics-envelopes formed by the trajectories of fluid particles-arise in proposed dynamical extensions for shell-crossing singularities occurring in the Einstein-dust system. In this study, a local existence result is established,…

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We consider 4-dimensional spacetime manifolds that are piecewise Lorentzian, where the Lorentzian components of the manifold are separated by codimension-one planes (spacelike or timelike) on which the metric is degenerate. Such manifolds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Bob Holdom

We provide a sufficient condition for the local stability of closed Einstein manifolds of positive Ricci curvature under the Ricci iteration in terms of the spectrum of the Lichnerowicz Laplacian acting on divergence-free tensor fields. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Timothy Buttsworth , Maximilien Hallgren

The field equations of the recent nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation are presented in a form that is reminiscent of general relativity. The implications of the nonlocal field equations are studied in the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-24 Donato Bini , Bahram Mashhoon

On a manifold we term a hypersurface foliation a slicing if it is the level set foliation of a slice function -- meaning some real valued function $f$ satisfying that $df$ is nowhere zero. On Riemannian manifolds we give a non-linear PDE on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-21 A. Rod Gover , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Building upon previous works characterizing GRW space-times using concircular and torse-forming vectors, this paper investigates a Lorentzian manifold equipped with a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection. We demonstrate that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Miroslav D. Maksimović , Milan Lj. Zlatanović , Milica R. Vučurović

We prove that there are no restrictions on the spatial topology of asymptotically flat solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in (n+1)-dimensions. We do this by gluing a solution of the vacuum constraint equations on an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Daniel Pollack

The properties of some locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) perfect fluid space-times are examined in order to demonstrate the usage of the description of geometries in terms of the Riemann tensor and a finite number of its covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mattias Marklund

We investigate the initial value problem for the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity under the assumption of Gowdy symmetry on T3, and we construct matter spacetimes with low regularity. These spacetimes admit, both, impulsive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Philippe G. LeFloch , Alan D. Rendall

Let $(M,g)$ be an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold with a smooth conformal compactification. We establish a general correspondence between semilinear elliptic equations of scalar curvature type on $\del M$ and Weingarten foliations in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-12 Rafe Mazzeo , Frank Pacard

The main result of this paper is that the space of conformally compact Einstein metrics on a given manifold is a smooth, infinite dimensional Banach manifold, provided it is non-empty, generalizing earlier work of Graham-Lee and Biquard. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-16 Michael T. Anderson

We prove boundary controllability results for wave equations (with lower-order terms) on Lorentzian manifolds with time-dependent geometry satisfying suitable curvature bounds. The main ingredient is a novel global Carleman estimate on…

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The model of a stationary universe and the notion of local times presented in [10] are reviewed with some alternative formulation of the consistent unification of the Riemannian and Euclidean geometries of general relativity and quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hitoshi Kitada

We give some uniform estimates for constant mean curvature solutions of the conformal vacuum Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds. Existence of those solutions was given in a paper by J. Isenberg.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yu Yan

We present the complete set of covariant equations that govern the locally rotationally symmetric torsion spacetimes sourced by Weyssenhoff fluid in Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble gravity. Using these equations, we can explore in detail the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Ujjwal Agarwal , Sante Carloni

We prove that every solution to Einstein's equations with possibly non-zero cosmological constant that is foliated by non-expanding null surfaces transversal to a single non-expanding null surface belongs to family of the near (extremal)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Jerzy Lewandowski , Adam Szereszewski

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

The global structure of solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to the Vlasov equation is investigated in the presence of a two-dimensional symmetry group. It is shown that there exist global CMC and areal time foliations. The proof is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-21 Hakan Andreasson , Alan D. Rendall , Marsha Weaver