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We study the semiclassical Einstein field equations with a Klein-Gordon field in ultrastatic and static spacetimes. In both cases, the equations for the spacetime metric become constraint equations. In the ultrastatic case, the Hadamard…

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We formulate the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac equations in the Newman-Penrose (NP) formalism, thereby presenting a more accurate and explicit analysis of previous such studies. The equations show in a transparent way how the Einstein-Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Swanand Khanapurkar , Abhinav Varma , Nehal Mittal , Navya Gupta , Tejinder P. Singh

We propose a geometric approach for the numerical integration of singular initial value problems for (systems of) quasi-linear differential equations. It transforms the original problem into the problem of computing the unstable manifold at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Werner M. Seiler , Matthias Seiss

We analyze the initial value problem for spinor fields obeying the Dirac equation, with particular attention to the characteristic surfaces. The standard Cauchy initial value problem for first order differential equations is to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ovid C. Jacob , Ronald J. Adler

This paper investigates the initial value problem for a system of one-dimensional fourth-order dispersive partial differential-integral equations with nonlinearity involving derivatives up to second order. Examples of the system arise in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Eiji Onodera

We prove the spacetime Penrose inequality for asymptotically flat $2(n+1)$-dimensional initial data sets for the Einstein equations, which are invariant under a cohomogeneity one action of $\mathrm{SU}(n+1)$. Analogous results are obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Marcus Khuri , Hari Kunduri

For a graph consisting of parallel connected subgraphs we express the characteristic function of the boundary value problem with generalized Neumann conditions at both joining points via characteristic functions of different boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Vyacheslav Pivovarchik

We consider the Nelson model with variable coefficients and investigate the problem of existence of a ground state and the removal of the ultraviolet cutoff. Nelson models with variable coefficients arise when one replaces in the usual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Christian Gérard , Fumio Hiroshima , Annalisa Panati , Akito Suzuki

We investigate the qualitative properties of the weak solutions to the boundary value problems for the hyperbolic fourth-order linear equations with constant coefficients in the plane bounded domain convex with respect to characteristics.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 K. Buryachenko

This paper is the initial part of a comprehensive study of spacetimes that admit the canonical forms of Killing tensor in General Relativity. The general scope of the study is to derive either new exact solutions of Einstein's equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Dionysios Kokkinos , Taxiarchis Papakostas

This manuscript concerns the dynamics of non-isentropic compressible Euler equations in a physical vacuum. We establish the Hadamard-style local well-posedness in low-regularity weighted Sobolev spaces, where the gas-vacuum interface is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Sicheng Liu , Tao Luo

We investigate linear boundary value problems for first-order one-dimensional hyperbolic systems in a strip. We establish conditions for existence and uniqueness of bounded continuous solutions. For that we suppose that the non-diagonal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 R. Klyuchnyk , I. Kmit

Local solutions are a vivid and long-living topic in gravitational physics. We consider exact static pseudo-spherically symmetric solutions of semi-classical Einstein's equations in presence of the trace anomaly contribution. We investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Marco Calzá , Alessandro Casalino , Lorenzo Sebastiani

An initial boundary value problem for one-dimensional hyperbolic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is investigated. After transforming the system into Lagrangian coordinate, the resulting system possesses a structure with uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Yuxi Hu , Yachun Li

We give a short proof of local well-posedness for the initial boundary value problem in general relativity with sole boundary condition the requirement that the boundary is umbilic. This includes as a special case the totally geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-20 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

We introduce a new class of singular partial differential equations, referred to as the second-order hyperbolic Fuchsian systems, and we investigate the associated initial value problem when data are imposed on the singularity. First, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Florian Beyer , Philippe G. LeFloch

A classical problem in general relativity is the Cauchy problem for the linearised Einstein equation (the initial value problem for gravitational waves) on a globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetime. A well-known result is that it is uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Oliver Lindblad Petersen

Considerable work has gone into studying the properties of nonlocal diffusion equations. The existence of a principal eigenvalue has been a significant portion of this work. While there are good results for the existence of a principal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Daniel B. Smith

In this paper, we derive the generic solution of the Newman-Penrose equations in the Newman-Unti gauge with vanishing curvature tensor. The obtained solutions are the vacua of the gravitational theory which are connected to the derivations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Pujian Mao

In this paper, we deal with the initial value problem for a class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with a singular Dirichlet boundary condition in one space dimension. The interior equation includes, for example, a fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Takashi Kagaya