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The nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime has been one of the central achievements in the mathematical theory of general relativity and, more broadly, in the analysis of nonlinear geometric wave equations. Since the seminal work of…

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In the Cauchy problem of general relativity one considers initial data that satisfies certain constraints. The evolution equations guarantee that the evolved variables will satisfy the constraints at later instants of time. This is only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We prove global existence for Einstein's equations with a charged scalar field for initial conditions sufficiently close to the Minkowski spacetime without matter. The proof relies on generalized wave coordinates adapted to the outgoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Christopher Kauffman , Hans Lindblad

We prove the global asymptotic stability of the Minkowski space for the massless Einstein-Vlasov system in wave coordinates. In contrast with previous work on the subject, no compact support assumptions on the initial data of the Vlasov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Léo Bigorgne , David Fajman , Jérémie Joudioux , Jacques Smulevici , Maximilian Thaller

In this paper, we sketch the proof of the extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in General Relativity done explicitly in previous work by the present author. We discuss solutions of the Einstein vacuum (EV) equations. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-10 Lydia Bieri

The Einstein evolution equations are studied in a gauge given by a combination of the constant mean curvature and spatial harmonic coordinate conditions. This leads to a coupled quasilinear elliptic--hyperbolic system of evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Vincent Moncrief

We prove the global stability of the Minkowski space viewed as the trivial solution of the Einstein-Vlasov system. To estimate the Vlasov field, we use the vector field and modified vector field techniques developed in [FJS15; FJS17]. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 David Fajman , Jérémie Joudioux , Jacques Smulevici

Linear perturbations on Minkowski space are used to probe numerically the remote region of an asymptotically flat space-time close to spatial infinity. The study is undertaken within the framework of Friedrich's conformal field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-04 Florian Beyer , Georgios Doulis , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

We analyze the Cauchy problem for symmetric hyperbolic equations with a time singularity of Fuchsian type and establish a global existence theory along with decay estimates for evolutions towards the singular time under a small initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Florian Beyer , Todd A. Oliynyk , J. Arturo Olvera-Santamaría

In this article one will develop a new type of energy method based on a foliation of spacetime into hyperboloidal hypersurfaces . As we will see, with this method, some classical results such as global existence and almost global existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Yue MA

It is shown that solutions to Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant can include non-zero rest-mass fields which coexist with and travel unimpeded across a smooth conformal boundary. This is exemplified by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-20 Helmut Friedrich

A frame representation is used to derive a first order quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic system for a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. This procedure is inspired by similar evolution equations introduced by Friedrich to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-17 Artur Alho , Filipe C. Mena , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We study the Einstein-scalar field system with positive cosmological constant and spherically symmetric characteristic initial data given on a truncated null cone. We prove well-posedness, global existence and exponential decay in (Bondi)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Joao L. Costa , Artur Alho , Jose Natario

We develop a time-domain numerical framework for global scalar wave scattering in Minkowski spacetime. The main contribution is an exact conformal matching of three compactified regions: a past hyperboloidal domain attached to $\mathscr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ekrem S Demirboğa , Anıl Zenginoğlu

By employing the Bianchi identities for the Riemann tensor in conjunction with the Einstein equations, we construct a first order symmetric hyperbolic system for the evolution part of the Cauchy problem of general relativity. In this…

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

We give a short proof of the existence of a small piece of null infinity for $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetimes evolving from asymptotically flat initial data as solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations. We introduce a modification of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Peter Hintz

Motivated by the goal for high accuracy modeling of gravitational radiation emitted by isolated systems, recently, there has been renewed interest in the numerical solution of the hyperboloidal initial value problem for Einstein's field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Manuel D. Morales , Olivier Sarbach

We study the initial value problem of the Einstein-Dirac system, and show the stability of the Minkowski solution in the massless case with the use of generalized wave coordinates. This requires the understanding of the Dirac equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xuantao Chen

The open Milne cosmological spacetime has a 3-dimensional Cauchy surface isometric to the (non-compact) hyperbolic space. We prove the globally nonlinear stability of the open Milne spacetime for both massive and massless Einstein-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Jinhua Wang , Wei Yuan

We study the problem of stability of the catenoid, which is an asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric minimal surface in Euclidean space, viewed as a stationary solution to the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature equation in Minkowski…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jonas Luhrmann , Sung-Jin Oh , Sohrab Shahshahani