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We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear parabolic equations. We consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the parabolic equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$ -…

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Many traditional algorithms applied in gravitational-wave astronomy rely on the assumption of Gaussian noise, a condition not always met. To meet this need, this study extends a robust statistical framework, advancing previous work on…

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An orbiting black hole binary will generate strong gravitational radiation signatures, making these binaries important candidates for detection in gravitational wave observatories. The gravitational radiation is characterized by the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Erin Bonning , Pedro Marronetti , David Neilsen , Richard Matzner

We present an approximate metric for a binary black hole spacetime to construct initial data for numerical relativity. This metric is obtained by asymptotically matching a post-Newtonian metric for a binary system to a perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Yunes , Wolfgang Tichy , Benjamin J. Owen , Bernd Bruegmann

In this paper, we introduce a general constructive method to compute solutions of initial value problems of semilinear parabolic partial differential equations on hyper-rectangular domains via semigroup theory and computer-assisted proofs.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Gabriel William Duchesne , Jean-Philippe Lessard , Akitoshi Takayasu

This article addresses linear hyperbolic partial differential equations and pseudodifferential equations with strongly singular coefficients and data, modelled as members of algebras of generalised functions. We employ the recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-18 Claudia Garetto , Michael Oberguggenberger

Many interesting physical problems described by systems of hyperbolic conservation laws are stiff, and thus impose a very small time-step because of the restrictive CFL stability condition. In this case, one can exploit the superior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Giuseppe Visconti

A general method is presented for estimating the uncertainty in hybrid models of gravitational waveforms from binary black-hole systems with arbitrary physical parameters, and thence the highest allowable initial orbital frequency for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-10 Michael Boyle

We construct exact initial data for closed cosmological models filled with regularly arranged black holes in the presence of $\Lambda$. The intrinsic geometry of the 3-dimensional space described by this data is a sum of simple closed-form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Jessie Durk , Timothy Clifton

We give a complete analytical proof of existence and uniqueness of extreme-like black hole initial data for Einstein equations, which possess a cilindrical end, analogous to extreme Kerr, extreme Reissner Nordstrom, and extreme Bowen-York's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-17 María E. Gabach Clement

We revisit the construction of puncture black hole initial data in the conformal thin-sandwich decomposition of Einstein's constraint equations. It has been shown previously that this approach cannot yield quasiequilibrium wormhole data,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Thomas W. Baumgarte

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

A new development of the ``monodromy transform'' method for analysis of hyperbolic as well as elliptic integrable reductions of Einstein equations is presented. Compatibility conditions for some alternative representations of the…

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Initial data for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system is constructed whose past evolution is regular and whose future evolution contains a black hole. This is the first example of initial data with these properties for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Håkan Andréasson

We consider two strongly hyperbolic Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity and their numerical integration with a free and a partially constrained symplectic integrator. In those formulations we use hyperbolic drivers for the shift…

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It is well known that multigrid methods are optimally efficient for solution of elliptic equations (O(N)), which means that effort is proportional to the number of points at which the solution is evaluated). Thus this is an ideal method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vishnu Natchu , Richard A. Matzner

We use the framework of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions to study existence and uniqueness of global generalized solutions to mixed non-local problems for a semilinear hyperbolic system. Coefficients of the system as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

Solving Einstein's constraint equations for the construction of black hole initial data requires handling the black hole singularity. Typically, this is done either with the excision method, in which the black hole interior is excised from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Thomas W. Baumgarte

We introduce a new method to construct solutions to the constraint equations of general relativity describing binary black holes in quasicircular orbit. Black hole pairs with arbitrary momenta can be constructed with a simple method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas W. Baumgarte