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The conformal method has been effective for parametrizing solutions to the Einstein constraint equations on closed 3-manifolds. However, it is still not well-understood; for example, existence of solutions to the conformal equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-10 Michael Holst , Caleb Meier

We prove that various spaces of constrained positive scalar curvature metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary, when not empty, are contractible. The constraints we mostly focus on are given in terms of local conditions on the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Alessandro Carlotto , Chao Li

This paper makes a formal study of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics given, as conformal infinity, a conformal manifold with boundary. The space on which such an Einstein metric exists thus has a finite boundary in addition to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Stephen E. McKeown

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

In this work, we investigate the geometry and topology of compact Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundary. First, we prove a sharp boundary estimate, as consequence we obtain under certain hypotheses that the Hawking mass is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Maria Andrade , Ana Paula de Melo

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

We deal with rigidity results for compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundaries. As a result, we obtain new characterizations for hemispheres and geodesic balls in simply connected space forms. In dimensions three and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Allan George de Carvalho Freitas , José Nazareno Vieira Gomes

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

The goal of this article is to study compact quasi-Einstein manifolds with boundary. We provide boundary estimates for compact quasi-Einstein manifolds simi\-lar to previous results obtained for static and $V$-static spaces. In addition, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Rafael Diógenes , Tiago Gadelha

We study boundary regularity for conformally compact Einstein metrics in even dimensions by generalizing the ideas of Michael Anderson. Our method of approach is to view the vanishing of the Ambient Obstruction tensor as an nth order system…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Dylan Helliwell

In the article we introduce new conformal and smooth invariants on compact, oriented four-manifolds with boundary. In the first part, we show that "positivity" conditions on these invariants will impose topological restrictions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Siyi Zhang

We consider the Einstein constraints on asymptotically euclidean manifolds $M$ of dimension $n \geq 3$ with sources of both scaled and unscaled types. We extend to asymptotically euclidean manifolds the constructive method of proof of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , James W. York,

It is well-known that solutions to the conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations are unique in the cases of constant mean curvature (CMC) and near constant mean curvature (near-CMC). However, the new far-from-constant mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-10 Michael Holst , Caleb Meier

We construct low regularity solutions of the vacuum Einstein constraint equations. In particular, on 3-manifolds we obtain solutions with metrics in $H^s\loc$ with $s>{3\over 2}$. The theory of maximal asymptotically Euclidean solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Maxwell

The Einstein constraint equations have been the subject of study for more than fifty years. The introduction of the conformal method in the 1970's as a parameterization of initial data for the Einstein equations led to increased interest in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-29 M. Holst , V. Kungurtsev

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

We construct solutions with prescribed asymptotics to the Einstein constraint equations using a cut-off technique. Moreover, we give various examples of vacuum asymptotically flat manifolds whose center of mass and angular momentum are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Lan-Hsuan Huang

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

Let (M, g) be a compact Einstein manifold with non-empty boundary. We prove that Killing fields at the boundary extend to Killing fields of any (M, g) provided the boundary is weakly convex and a simple condition on the fundamental group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Michael T Anderson

In this article we develop some new existence results for the Einstein constraint equations using the Lichnerowicz-York conformal rescaling method. The mean extrinsic curvature is taken to be an arbitrary smooth function without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-13 M. Holst , G. Nagy , G. Tsogtgerel