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In this article we show that one can construct initial data for the Einstein equations which satisfy the vacuum constraints. This initial data is defined on a manifold with topology $R^3$ with a regular center and is asymptotically flat.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Beig , N. Ó Murchadha

We show how to prescribe the initial data of a characteristic problem satisfying the costraints, the smallness, the regularity and the asymptotic decay suitable to prove a global existence result. In this paper, the first of two, we show in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Caciotta , Francesco Nicolò

In this article we consider the initial value problem of the binormal flow with initial data given by curves that are regular except at one point where they have a corner. We prove that under suitable conditions on the initial data a unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Valeria Banica , Luis Vega

In this paper, we study the problem of the nonlinear interaction of impulsive gravitational waves for the Einstein vacuum equations. The problem is studied in the context of a characteristic initial value problem with data given on two null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Jonathan Luk , Igor Rodnianski

The global characteristic initial value problem for linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is examined, for a class of smooth initial value hypersurfaces satisfying favourable global properties. First it is shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Umberto Lupo

We consider the collisions of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves with distinct wavefronts and of arbitrary polarizations in a Minkowski background. We first present a new, completely geometric formulation of the characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Alekseev , J. B. Griffiths

In this work, we study the initial boundary value problem for a non-strictly hyperbolic $2\times2$ system of equations in the quarter plane $x>0,t>0$ which is derived from Eulerian droplet model for air particle flow for velocity and volume…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Kayyunnapara Divya Joseph

The characteristic initial boundary problem is discussed in spherical symmetry for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field equations. It is formulated for an affine-null metric and the resulting field equations are cast into a hierarchical system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Thomas Mädler , Radouane Gannouji , Emanuel Gallo

We resume former discussions of the conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild background, with a particular focus on the behaviour of solutions near the 'cylinder', i.e. Friedrich's representation of spacelike infinity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Jörg Hennig

We study the evolution of a self-gravitating compressible fluid in spherical symmetry and we prove the existence of weak solutions with bounded variation for the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity. We formulate the initial value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-17 Annegret Y. Burtscher , Philippe G. LeFloch

We consider plane-symmetric spacetimes satisfying Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant, when the matter is a fluid whose pressure is equal to its mass-energy density (i.e. a so-called stiff fluid). We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-01 Philippe G. LeFloch , Sophonie B. Tchapnda

In the first of two papers, we study the initial boundary-value problem that underlies the theory of the Boltzmann equation for general non-spherical hard particles. In this work, for two congruent ellipses and for a large class of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Mark Wilkinson

We study the wave propagator for a Friedmann - Robertson - Walker background space-time, which is singular at time t=0. Using a spherical means formulation for the solution of the wave equation that is due to Klainerman and Sarnak, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bilal Abbasi , Walter Craig

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

In this paper, we are concerned with the stochastic time-fractional diffusion-wave equations in a Hilbert space. The main objective of this paper is to establish properties of the stochastic weak solutions of the initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Matti Lassas , Zhiyuan Li , Zhidong Zhang

Formulating a dust filled spherically symmetric metric utilizing the 3+1 formalism for general relativity, we show that the metric coefficients are completely determined by the matter distribution throughout the spacetime. Furthermore, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-09 Paul Lasky , Anthony Lun , Raymond Burston

In this paper, we study the initial boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation with combined power-type nonlinearities with variable coefficients. The global behavior of the solutions with non-positive and sub-critical energy is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Milena Dimova , Natalia Kolkovska , Nikolai Kutev

General relativity can describe various gravitational systems of astrophysical relevance, like black holes and neutron stars, or even strongly coupled systems through the holographic duality. The characteristic initial (boundary) value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Thanasis Giannakopoulos

We investigate the qualitative properties of the weak solutions to the boundary value problems for the hyperbolic fourth-order linear equations with constant coefficients in the plane bounded domain convex with respect to characteristics.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 K. Buryachenko

It is well-known that considerations of symmetry lead to the definition of a host of conserved quantities (energy, linear momentum, center of mass, etc.) for an asymptotically flat initial data set, and a great deal of progress in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Levi Lopes de Lima