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We show how to assign, on two intersecting null hypersurfaces, initial data for the Einstein-Vlasov system in harmonic coordinates. As all the components of the metric appear in each component of the stress-energy tensor, the hierarchical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 Tadmon Calvin

The physical situation of the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background gives rise to a well-posed characteristic initial value problem in which initial data are specified on the two null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Griffiths , M. Santano-Roco

The relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system of plasma physics is considered with initial data on a past light cone. This characteristic initial value problem arises in a natural way as a mathematical framework to study the existence of solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Calogero

We consider initial boundary value problems with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Given an initial value, we establish the uniqueness in determining a spatially varying coefficient of zeroth-order term by a single measurement of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Oleg Y. Imanuvilov , M. Yamamoto

The paper considers the system of pressureless gas dynamics in one space dimension. The question of solvability of the initial-boundary value problem is addressed. Using the method of generalized potentials and characteristic triangles,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-22 L. Neumann , M. Oberguggenberger , M. R. Sahoo , A. Sen

We consider an initial value problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation with memory under nonlinear nonlocal boundary condition. In this paper we study classical solutions. We establish the existence of a local maximal solution. It is shown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Alexander Gladkov

In the first part of this thesis, Kerr-Schild metrics and extended Kerr-Schild metrics are analyzed in the context of higher dimensional general relativity. Employing the higher dimensional generalizations of the Newman-Penrose formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-03 Tomáš Málek

We present a symmetric hyperbolic formulation of the Einstein equations in affine-null coordinates. Giannakopoulos et. al. (arXiv:2007.06419) recently showed that the most commonly numerically implemented formulations of the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 Justin L. Ripley

We explore how the initial value problem may be formulated for globally hyperbolic, Hadamard, solutions of the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. Given a set of data on an initial 3-surface, consisting of the values on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-13 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Bernard S. Kay , Tonatiuh Miramontes , Daniel Sudarsky

We study a one-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic-parabolic initial boundary value problem occurring in the theory of thermoelasticity. We prove existence and uniqueness of the local-in-time strong solution. Also, some global-in-time weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Tomasz Cieslak , Marija Galić , Boris Muha

In this paper, we study asymptotic symmetries and algebraically special exact solutions in the Newman-Penrose formalism. Removing the hypersurface orthogonal condition in the well studied Newman-Unti gauge, we obtain a generic asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Pujian Mao , Weicheng Zhao

We study the existence and localization of eigenvalue-eigenfunction pairs for parameter-dependent Neumann BVPs with a functional term. By reformulating the problems as a Hammerstein integral equation, we apply an existence and localization…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Giuseppe Antonio Veltri

In this paper we consider an initial boundary value problem for a semilinear parabolic equation with absorption and nonlinear nonlocal Neumann boundary condition. We prove comparison principle, the existence theorem of a local solution and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Alexander Gladkov

We use the canonical formalism developed together with David Robinson to st= udy the Einstein equations on a null surface. Coordinate and gauge conditions = are introduced to fix the triad and the coordinates on the null surface. Toget= her…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 J. N. Goldberg , C. Soteriou

It is well-known that considerations of symmetry lead to the definition of a host of conserved quantities (energy, linear momentum, center of mass, etc.) for an asymptotically flat initial data set, and a great deal of progress in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Levi Lopes de Lima

We investigate the well-posedness of the characteristic initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations in Bondi-like coordinates (including Bondi, double-null and affine). We propose a definition of strong hyperbolicity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Carsten Gundlach

A Cauchy-characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system with spherical symmetry is presented. Initial data are specified on the union of a space-like and null hypersurface. The development of the data is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Roberto Go'mez , Pablo Laguna , Philippos Papadopoulos , Jeff Winicour

Well-posedness of the initial (boundary) value problem is an essential property, both of meaningful physical models and of numerical applications. To prove well-posedness of wave-type equations their level of hyperbolicity is an essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-20 Ronny Richter , David Hilditch

In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalue problem for a non-local dispersal operator defined on a bounded spatial domain with Neumann-type boundary conditions. Unlike the classical Laplacian, the non-local operator lacks compactness,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maciej Tadej

Bondi's approach to the construction of a coordinate system is used with a different choice of gauge, in accordance with which the radial coordinate r is an affine parameter, to cast the metric tensor into a form suitable for use with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ewald Wessels