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Einstein-aether gravity is a theory that breaks the local Lorentz symmetry by introducing a preferred direction via a vector field, which is considered to play the role of an aether. The theory is identified by four coupling constants…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Kamal Hajian

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the quadratic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^2$ with the nonlinearity $\eta |u|^2$ where $\eta \in \mathbb{C} \setminus \{0\}$ and low regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Hiroyuki Hirayama , Shinya Kinoshita , Mamoru Okamoto

We review the status of "Einstein-Aether theory", a generally covariant theory of gravity coupled to a dynamical, unit timelike vector field that breaks local Lorentz symmetry. Aspects of waves, stars, black holes, and cosmology are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Eling , T. Jacobson , D. Mattingly

In this paper we study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for first order hyperbolic systems with constant multiplicities and with low regularity coefficients depending just on the time variable. We consider Zygmund and log-Zygmund…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Ferruccio Colombini , Daniele Del Santo , Francesco Fanelli , Guy Métivier

In the mathematical physics literature, there are heuristic arguments, going back three decades, suggesting that for an open set of initially smooth solutions to the Einstein-vacuum equations in high dimensions, stable, approximately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Igor Rodnianski , Jared Speck

We study the Cauchy problem for a class of linear evolution equations of arbitrary order with coefficients depending both on time and space variables. Under suitable decay assumptions on the coefficients of the lower order terms for $|x|$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Marco Cappiello , Eliakim Cleyton Machado

We take a step towards characterising stationary data for the vacuum Einstein equations, by finding a necessary condition on initial data for which the evolution is a solution of the vacuum equations admitting a Killing vector, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-02 Paul Tod

This paper establishes novel bounds for Gowdy-symmetric Einstein-Euler spacetimes and completes the analysis, initiated by LeFloch and Rendall, of the global areal foliation for these spacetimes. We thus consider the initial value problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Nastasia Grubic , Philippe G. LeFloch

These lectures are designed to provide a general introduction to the Einstein-Vlasov system and to the global Cauchy problem for these equations. To start with some general facts are collected and a local existence theorem for the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan D. Rendall

Numerical simulations of the Cauchy problem for self-interacting massive vector fields often face instabilities and apparent pathologies. We explicitly demonstrate that these issues, previously reported in the literature, are actually due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Marcelo E. Rubio , Guillermo Lara , Miguel Bezares , Marco Crisostomi , Enrico Barausse

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the incompressible Euler equation in a time-dependent fluid domain, whose interface evolution is governed by the law of linear elasticity. Our main result asserts that the Cauchy problem is globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Thomas Alazard , Chengyang Shao , Haocheng Yang

In the framework of the Einstein-aether theory we consider a cosmological model, which describes the evolution of the unit dynamic vector field with activated rotational degree of freedom. We discuss exact solutions of the Einstein-aether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-25 Alexander Balakin , Vladimir Popov

We derive an initial value formulation for dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modification of general relativity involving parity-violating higher derivative terms. We investigate the structure of the resulting system of partial differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Térence Delsate , David Hilditch , Helvi Witek

We study well-posedness and ill-posedness for Cauchy problem of the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations describing the large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics. By using the Littlewood-Paley analysis technique, in particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Jinyi Sun , Shangbin Cui

The initial value problem of scalar-tensor theories of gravity (STT) is analyzed in the physical (Jordan) frame using a 3+1 decomposition of spacetime. A first order strongly hyperbolic system is obtained for which the well posedness of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcelo Salgado , David Martinez-del Rio

The Cauchy problem is studied for very general systems of evolution equations, where the time derivative of solution is written by Fourier multipliers in space and analytic nonlinearity, with no other structural requirement. We construct a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kenji Nakanishi , Baoxiang Wang

We consider gravitational field equations which are Einstein equations written in terms of embedding coordinates in some higher dimensional Minkowski space. Our main focus is to address some tricky issues relating to the Cauchy problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-27 Steven Willison

In this note we analyze, in terms of a simple example, the incompatibility of parabolic evolution and general covariance. For this we introduce a unit time-like four-vector and study the simplest heat flux equation with respect to it. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 A. L. García-Perciante , Oscar. Reula

This article, written to appear as a chapter in "The Springer Handbook of Spacetime", is a review of the initial value problem for Einstein's gravitational field theory in general relativity. Designed to be accessible to graduate students…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 James Isenberg

The well-posedness of the abstract \textsc{Cauchy} problem for the doubly nonlinear evolution inclusion equation of second order \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u''(t)+\partial \Psi(u'(t))+B(t,u(t))\ni f(t), &\quad t\in (0,T),\, T>0,\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Aras Bacho