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The main purpose of the present paper is to show that a correction of one mistake was crucial for Einstein's pathway to the first version of the 1915 general theory of relativity, but also might have played a role in obtaining the final…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Galina Weinstein

Schwarzschild's solution to the Einstein Field Equations was one of the first and most important solutions that lead to the understanding and important experimental tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. However, Schwarzschild's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. van den Hoogen

Strongly coupled gravitational systems describe Einstein gravity and matter in the limit that Newton's constant G is assumed to be very large. The nonlinear evolution of these systems may be solved analytically in the classical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. S. Salopek

This talk describes some recent results [16] regarding the problem of uniqueness in the large (also known as strong cosmic censorship) for the initial value problem in general relativity. In order to isolate the essential analytic features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-13 Mihalis Dafermos

In Einstein's equation we suggest a geometrical object substituting the tensor of energy of impulse and tension. The obtained equation, together with the equation for external field, makes up the complete problem of mathematical equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Gevorkian , R. A. Gevorkian

Einstein's general relativity relates the curvature of space time, a second order differential property, to the stress-energy-momentum tensor. In this paper we ask whether it is possible to develop a first order theory relating space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaneer Bar-Yam

A challenging issue in General Relativity concerns the determination of the manifestly-covariant continuum Hamiltonian structure underlying the Einstein field equations and the related formulation of the corresponding covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Claudio Cremaschini , Massimo Tessarotto

The issue of implementing the principle of general relativity in Einstein equations has been widely discussed, since Kretschmann's well-known criticism stated that general covariance of the Einstein equations is not suffice to express the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Leston , Rafael Ferraro

In this letter we present the first multiparticle solutions to Einstein's field equations in the presence of matter. These solutions are iteratively obtained via the perturbiner method, which can circumvent gravity's infinite number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-01 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas

The cause of an infringement in GR of a gravitational field energy conservation law is investigated . The equation of a gravitational field not contradicting to the energy conservation law is suggested. This equation satisfy to the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-16 Roald Sosnovskiy

This is the author Master's Thesis and its main purpose is to demonstrate that it is possible to formulate Einstein's field equations as an initial value problem. The first chapter concerns the hyperbolic equations theory. The definition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-26 Marica Minucci

Einstein, Infeld, and Hoffmann (EIH) claimed that the field equations of general relativity theory alone imply the equations of motion of neutral matter particles, viewed as point singularities in space-like slices of spacetime; they also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

We find new classes of exact solutions of the initial momentum constraint for vacuum Einstein's equations. Considered data are either invariant under a continuous symmetry or they are assumed to have the exterior curvature tensor of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-01 J. Tafel , M. Jóźwikowski

We consider a characteristic initial value problem for a class of symmetric hyperbolic systems with initial data given on two smooth null intersecting characteristic surfaces. We prove existence of solutions on a future neighborhood of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-29 Aurore Cabet , Piotr T. Chruściel , Roger Tagne Wafo

Einstein's general theory of relativity is the standard theory of gravity, especially where the needs of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics are concerned. As such, this theory is used for many practical purposes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-15 Slava G. Turyshev

We study the pages in Albert Einstein's 1916 landmark paper in the Annalen der Physik where he derived his field equations for gravity. Einstein made two heuristic and physically insightful steps. The first was to obtain the field equations…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Sam Walters

We solve the Einstein constraint equations for a first-order causal viscous relativistic hydrodynamic theory in the case of a conformal fluid. For such a theory, a direct application of the conformal method does not lead to a decoupling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Marcelo M. Disconzi , James Isenberg , David Maxwell

In his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein mentioned that on his road to the final theory of general relativity it was a major difficulty to accustom himself to the idea that coordinates need not possess an immediate physical meaning in terms…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Dennis Dieks

Einstein established the theory of general relativity and the corresponding field equation in 1915 and its vacuum solutions were obtained by Schwarzschild and Kerr for, respectively, static and rotating black holes, in 1916 and 1963,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Einstein's equations in matter are gravitational analogues of Maxwell's equations in matter, providing an effective classical description of gravitational fields. We derive Einstein's equations in matter for relativistic fluids, and use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-29 Pavel Kovtun , Ashish Shukla