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We make use of an improved existence result for the characteristic initial value problem for the conformal Einstein equations to show that given initial data on two null hypersurfaces $\mathcal{N}_\star$ and $\mathcal{N}'_\star$ such that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Peng Zhao , David Hilditch , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We prove that in a certain class of conformal data on an asymptotically cylindrical manifold, if the conformally decomposed Einstein constraint equations do not admit a solution, then one can always find a nontrivial solution to the limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-22 James Dilts , Jeremy Leach

This paper develops a theory of conformal density at infinity for groups with contracting elements. We start by introducing a class of convergence boundary encompassing many known hyperbolic-like boundaries, on which a detailed study of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Wenyuan Yang

Given a collection of N asymptotically Euclidean ends with zero scalar curvature, we construct a Riemannian manifold with zero scalar curvature and one asymptotically Euclidean end, whose boundary has a neighborhood isometric to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-08 Piotr T. Chruściel , Justin Corvino , James Isenberg

One method of studying the asymptotic structure of spacetime is to apply Penrose's conformal rescaling technique. In this setting, the Einstein equations for the metric and the conformal factor in the unphysical spacetime degenerate where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher

The shear free condition is studied for dissipative relativistic self-gravitating fluids in the quasi-static approximation. It is shown that, in the Newtonian limit, such condition implies the linear homology law for the velocity of a fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Herrera , N. O. Santos

We show that there exist asymptotically flat almost-smooth initial data for Einstein-perfect fluid's equation that represent an isolated liquid-type body. By liquid-type body we mean that the fluid energy density has compact support and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Sergio Dain , Gabriel Nagy

We give a definition of mass for conformally compactifiable initial data sets. The asymptotic conditions are compatible with existence of gravitational radiation, and the compactifications are allowed to be polyhomogeneous. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. T. Chrusciel , J. Jezierski , S. Leski

A characterisation of initial data sets for the Schwarzschild spacetime is provided. This characterisation is obtained by performing a 3+1 decomposition of a certain invariant characterisation of the Schwarzschild spacetime given in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

One method for the numerical treatment of future null-infinity is to decouple coordinates from the tensor basis and choose each in a careful manner. This dual-frame approach is hampered by logarithmically divergent terms that appear in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Edgar Gasperin , Shalabh Gautam , David Hilditch , Alex Vañó-Viñuales

The asymptotic structure of space-time is studied by imposing conditions on the asymptotics of the metric. These conditions are weak enough to include large classes of physically relevant isolated space-times, but have a rich enough…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Berend Schneider , Neev Khera

It has been observed by Maldacena that one can extract asymptotically anti-de Sitter Einstein $4$-metrics from Bach-flat spacetimes by imposing simple principles and data choices. We cast this problem in a conformally compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Aghil Alaee , Eric Woolgar

We consider the usual Einstein-Hilbert action in a Metric-Affine setup and in the presence of a Perfect Hyperfluid. In order to decode the role of shear hypermomentum, we impose vanishing spin and dilation parts on the sources and allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Damianos Iosifidis

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell system as a Cauchy initial value problem taking the electric and magnetic fields as independent variables. Maxwell's equations in curved spacetimes are derived in detail using a 3+1 formalism and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-29 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Carlos Degollado , Marcelo Salgado

We discuss the hyperboloidal evolution problem in general relativity from a numerical perspective, and present some new results. Families of initial data which are the hyperboloidal analogue of Brill waves are constructed numerically, and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Sascha Husa , Carsten Schneemann , Tilman Vogel , Anil Zenginoglu

Given a time symmetric initial data set for the vacuum Einstein field equations which is conformally flat near infinity, it is shown that the solutions to the regular finite initial value problem at spatial infinity extend smoothly through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We discuss the Hamiltonian dynamics of general relativity with real connection variables on a null foliation, and use the Newman-Penrose formalism to shed light on the geometric meaning of the various constraints. We identify the equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 Elena De Paoli , Simone Speziale

Hypersurfaces embedded in conformal manifolds appear frequently as boundary data in boundary-value problems in cosmology and string theory. Viewed as the non-null conformal infinity of a spacetime, we consider hypersurfaces embedded in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Samuel Blitz

The residual gauge freedom within the null quasi-spherical coordinate condition is studied, for spacetimes admitting an expanding, shear-free null foliation. The freedom consists of a boost and rotation at each coordinate sphere,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert Bartnik