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We study the local in time well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem (IBVP) for the vacuum Einstein equations in general relativity with geometric boundary conditions. For conformal-mean curvature boundary conditions, consisting…

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The initial value problem is introduced after a thorough review of the essential geometry. The initial value equations are put into elliptic form using both conformal transformations and a treatment of the extrinsic curvature introduced…

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We construct exact solutions to the Bianchi equations on a flat spacetime background. When the constraints are satisfied, these solutions represent in- and outgoing linearized gravitational radiation. We then consider the Bianchi equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luisa T. Buchman , Olivier C. A. Sarbach

We study the nonlinear stability of the $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime as a solution of the Einstein vacuum equation. Similarly to our previous work on the stability of cosmological black holes, we construct the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peter Hintz , András Vasy

Extended gravitational models have gained large attention in the last couple of decades. In this work, we examine the solution space of vacuum, static, and spherically symmetric spacetimes within $F(R)$ theories, introducing novel methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Cristobal Laporte , Agustín Silva

We reformulate the standard local equations of general relativity for asymptotically flat spacetimes in terms of two non-local quantities, the holonomy $H$ around certain closed null loops on characteristic surfaces and the light cone cut…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Savitri V. Iyer , Carlos N. Kozameh , Ezra T. Newman

Current generalizations of the classical Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian formulation of General Relativity are reviewed. Some alternative variational principles are known to reproduce Einstein's gravitational equations, and should therefore be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Guido Magnano

We obtain higher dimensional analogues of the results of Mantoulidis and Schoen in [8]. More precisely, we show that (i) any metric $g$ with positive scalar curvature on the $3$-sphere $S^3$ can be realized as the induced metric on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco , Pengzi Miao

The Null Surface Formulation of General Relativity is developed for 2+1 dimensional gravity. The geometrical meaning of the metricity condition is analyzed and two approaches to the derivation of the field equations are presented. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Diego M. Forni , Mirta Iriondo , Carlos N. Kozameh

The idea that General Relativity could be an effective model, of a yet unknown theory of gravity, has gained momentum among theoretical physicists. The polynomial affine model of gravity is an alternative model of affine gravity that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Oscar Castillo-Felisola , Jose Perdiguero

Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Bela Szilagyi , Jeffrey Winicour

This is the first of a series of papers describing a numerical implementation of the conformally rescaled Einstein equation, an implementation designed to calculate asymptotically flat spacetimes, especially spacetimes containing black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

We consider the initial boundary value problem for free-evolution formulations of general relativity coupled to a parametrized family of coordinate conditions that includes both the moving puncture and harmonic gauges. We concentrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 David Hilditch , Milton Ruiz

Bearing the thermodynamic arguments together with the two definitions of mass in mind, we try to find metrics with spherical symmetry. We consider the adiabatic condition along with the Gong-Wang mass, and evaluate the $g_{rr}$ element…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-23 H. Moradpour , S. Nasirimoghadam

While the formalism of isolated horizons is known for some time, only quite recently the near horizon solution of Einstein's equations has been found in the Bondi-like coordinates by Krishnan in 2012. In this framework, the space-time is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Aleš Flandera

We apply the conformal method to solve the initial value formulation of general relativity to the $\lambda$-R model, a minimal, anisotropic modification of general relativity with a preferred foliation and two local degrees of freedom. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Luis Pires

We prove that the Einstein equations can be solved in a very general form for arbitrary spacetime dimensions and various types of vacuum and non-vacuum cases following a geometric method of anholonomic frame deformations for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

With the goal of taking a step toward the construction of astrophysically realistic initial data for numerical simulations of black holes, we for the first time derive a family of fully general relativistic initial data based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Tichy , B. Bruegmann , M. Campanelli , P. Diener

The null-timelike initial-boundary value problem for a hyperbolic system of equations consists of the evolution of data given on an initial characteristic surface and on a timelike worldtube to produce a solution in the exterior of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-16 H-O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

In the harmonic description of general relativity, the principle part of Einstein's equations reduces to 10 curved space wave equations for the componenets of the space-time metric. We present theorems regarding the stability of several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohammad Motamed , M. Babiuc , B. Szilagyi , H-O. Kreiss , J. Winicour