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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Arnaud Munch , Lauri Oksanen

We propose a new space-time variational formulation for wave equation initial-boundary value problems. The key property is that the formulation is coercive (sign-definite) and continuous in a norm stronger than $H^1(Q)$, $Q$ being the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Paolo Bignardi , Andrea Moiola

Fully non-linear, plane-symmetric exact solutions of the Einstein equations describing the scattering of gravitational and electromagnetic waves have existed for many years. For these closed-form solutions to be found, idealized wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Breanna Camden , Chris Stevens , John Forbes

Initial-boundary value problems on a half-strip with different types of boundary conditions for the generalized Kawahara-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation with nonlinearity of higher order are considered. In particular, nonlinearity can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Andrei V. Faminskii

Integrable structures arise in general relativity when the spacetime possesses a pair of commuting Killing vectors admitting 2-spaces orthogonal to the group orbits. The physical interpretation of such spacetimes depends on the norm of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Dmitry Korotkin , Henning Samtleben

First, a new sufficient condition for uniqueness of weak solutions is proved for the system of 2D viscous Primitive Equations. Second, global existence and uniqueness are established for several classes of weak solutions with partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Ning Ju

We consider the Einstein equations coupled to an ultrastiff perfect fluid and prove the existence of a family of solutions with an initial singularity whose structure is that of explicit isotropic models. This family of solutions is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Mark Heinzle , Patrik Sandin

The Einstein initial-value equations in the extrinsic curvature (Hamiltonian) representation and conformal thin sandwich (Lagrangian) representation are brought into complete conformity by the use of a decomposition of symmetric tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , James W. York

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

We consider the Cauchy problem for incompressible viscoelastic fluids in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=2,3$). By introducing a new decomposition via Helmholtz's projections, we first provide an alternative proof on the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Xianpeng Hu , Hao Wu

This paper establishes novel bounds for Gowdy-symmetric Einstein-Euler spacetimes and completes the analysis, initiated by LeFloch and Rendall, of the global areal foliation for these spacetimes. We thus consider the initial value problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Nastasia Grubic , Philippe G. LeFloch

We study an initial boundary value problem on a ball for the heat-conductive system of compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations, in particular, a criterion of breakdown of the classical solution. For smooth initial data away from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Xiangdi Huang

We consider the initial-boundary value problem in the quarter space for the system of equations of ideal Magneto-Hydrodynamics for compressible fluids with perfectly conducting wall boundary conditions. On the two parts of the boundary the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Paolo Secchi

In [20], we derived representation formulae for spatially periodic solutions to the generalized, inviscid Proudman-Johnson equation and studied their regularity for several classes of initial data. The purpose of this paper is to extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Alejandro Sarria , Ralph Saxton

Singularity theorems of general relativity utilize the notion of causal geodesic incompleteness as a criterion of the presence of a spacetime singularity. The incompleteness of a causal curve implies the end and/or beginning of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

The properties of the quantum universe on extremely small spacetime scales are studied in the semi-classical approach to the well-defined quantum model. It is shown that near the initial cosmological singularity point quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Penrose's original heuristic for his eponymous spacetime inequality -- a conjectured lower bound on the ADM mass in terms of the area of a horizon cross-section -- relies on the black hole final state conjecture. In this paper we isolate a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ahmed Ellithy

We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui

This paper is concerned with the initial value problem for a system of one-dimensional fourth-order dispersive partial differential equations on the torus with nonlinearity involving derivatives up to second order. This paper gives…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Eiji Onodera

We discuss here the issue of regularity of initial data for dynamical spherically symmetric massless scalar field models in a spacetime. Generalizing the known solutions of Einstein equations given in this case by Wyman and Roberts, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-07 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi