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The characteristic initial (boundary) value problem has numerous applications in general relativity (GR) involving numerical studies, and is often formulated using Bondi-like coordinates. Recently it was shown that several prototype…

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Starting from Post-Newtonian predictions for a system of $N$ infalling masses from the infinite past, we formulate and solve a scattering problem for the system of linearised gravity around Schwarzschild as introduced in [DHR19]. The…

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We extend the conformal gluing construction of Isenberg-Mazzeo-Pollack [18] by establishing an analogous gluing result for field theories obtained by minimally coupling Einstein's gravitational theory with matter fields. We treat classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James Isenberg , David Maxwell , Daniel Pollack

We describe a numerical code that solves Einstein's equations for a Schwarzschild black hole in spherical symmetry, using a hyperbolic formulation introduced by Choquet-Bruhat and York. This is the first time this formulation has been used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Mark A. Scheel , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Gregory B. Cook , Stuart L. Shapiro , Saul A. Teukolsky

By applying a parabolic-hyperbolic formulation of the constraints and superposing Kerr-Schild black holes, a simple method is introduced to initialize time evolution of binary systems. As the input parameters are essentially the same as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-07 István Rácz

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 present a method to construct conformally curved initial data for charged black hole binaries with spin on arbitrary orbits. We generalize the superposed Kerr-Schild, extended conformal thin sandwich construction from [Lovelace et al.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-25 Soham Mukherjee , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Wolfgang Tichy , Steven L. Liebling

We investigate the inverse Cauchy and data completion problems for elliptic partial differential equations in a bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \ge 2$, with a special emphasis on the steady-state heat conduction in anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Iulian Cîmpean , Andreea Grecu , Liviu Marin

This paper is concerned with giving the proof that there is a general decoupling property of vacuum and nonvacuum gravitational field equations in Einstein gravity and $f(R,T)$-modifications. The constructions are possible in terms of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Certain aspects of the behaviour of the gravitational field near null and spatial infinity for the developments of asymptotically Euclidean, conformally flat initial data sets are analysed. Ideas and results from two different approaches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Valiente Kroon

This is the third paper in a series describing a numerical implementation of the conformal Einstein equation. This paper describes a scheme to calculate (three) dimensional data for the conformal field equations from a set of free…

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

We present a new initial data formulation to solve the full set of Einstein equations for spacetimes that contain a black hole under general conditions. The method can be used to construct complete initial data for spacetimes (the full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 Antonios Tsokaros , Kōji Uryū , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present explicit solutions of the time-symmetric initial value constraints, expressed in terms of freely specfiable harmonic functions for examples of supergravity theories, which emerge as effective theories of compactified string…

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(Abridged) By asymptotically matching a post-Newtonian (PN) metric to two tidally perturbed Schwarzschild metrics, we generate approximate initial data (in the form of a 4-metric) for a nonspinning black hole binary in a circular orbit. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-07 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Nicolas Yunes , Wolfgang Tichy , Benjamin J. Owen

We study the constraint equations for a class of scalar-tensor effective field theories of gravity, including the operators up to $4$ derivatives in the action ($4\partial$ST). We extend the conformal transverse traceless and conformal thin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Aron D Kovacs

We consider the initial-value problem for a system of coupled Boussinesq equations on the infinite line for localised or sufficiently rapidly decaying initial data, generating sufficiently rapidly decaying right- and left-propagating waves.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-05-11 K. R. Khusnutdinova , K. R. Moore

This thesis is concerned with the development and application of conformal techniques to numerical calculations of asymptotically flat spacetimes. The conformal compactification technique enables us to calculate spatially unbounded domains,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-08 Anıl Zenginoğlu

The principle part of Einstein equations in the harmonic gauge consists of a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. A well-posed initial boundary value problem based upon a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Jeffrey Winicour

We construct initial data suitable for the Kerr stability conjecture, that is, solutions to the constraint equations on a spacelike hypersurface with boundary entering the black hole horizon that are arbitrarily decaying perturbations of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Allen Juntao Fang , Jérémie Szeftel , Arthur Touati

We consider a characteristic initial value problem for a class of symmetric hyperbolic systems with initial data given on two smooth null intersecting characteristic surfaces. We prove existence of solutions on a future neighborhood of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-29 Aurore Cabet , Piotr T. Chruściel , Roger Tagne Wafo