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We prove the well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein equations with sole boundary condition the requirement that the timelike boundary is totally geodesic. This provides the first well-posedness result for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

We formulate an initial boundary value problem (IBVP) for the vacuum Einstein equations by describing the boundary conditions of a spacetime metric in its associated gauge. This gauge is determined, equivariantly with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Zhongshan An , Michael T. Anderson

We provide a formulation of the initial boundary value problem for Friedrich's extended conformal Einstein field equations in which boundary data is prescribed on a timelike hypersurface located at a finite position in the spacetime. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Chris Stevens , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

The results on the initial boundary value problem for Einstein's vacuum field equation obtained in \cite{friedrich:nagy} rely on an unusual gauge. One of the defining gauge source functions represents the mean extrinsic curvature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Helmut Friedrich

We consider the initial boundary value problem for free-evolution formulations of general relativity coupled to a parametrized family of coordinate conditions that includes both the moving puncture and harmonic gauges. We concentrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 David Hilditch , Milton Ruiz

In many numerical implementations of the Cauchy formulation of Einstein's field equations one encounters artificial boundaries which raises the issue of specifying boundary conditions. Such conditions have to be chosen carefully. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-06 Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach

We prove that, for a given spherically symmetric fluid distribution with tangential pressure on an initial spacelike hypersurface with a timelike boundary, there exists a unique, local in time solution to the Einstein equations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Irene Brito , Filipe C. Mena

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations in a first-order generalized harmonic formulation. We impose boundary conditions that preserve the constraints and control the incoming gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-22 Oliver Rinne

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 present an implementation of absorbing boundary conditions for the Einstein equations based on the recent work of Buchman and Sarbach. In this paper, we assume that spacetime may be linearized about Minkowski space close to the outer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Rinne , Luisa T. Buchman , Mark A. Scheel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

While there exist now formulations of initial boundary value problems for Einstein's field equations which are well posed and preserve constraints and gauge conditions, the question of geometric uniqueness remains unresolved. For two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Helmut Friedrich

In this paper we study a numerical implementation for the initial boundary value formulation for the generalized conformal field equations. We propose a formulation which is well suited for the study of the long-time behaviour of perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-18 Florian Beyer , Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens , Ben Whale

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

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for the Einstein-Vlasov-Scalar field equations in temporal gauge, where the initial data are prescribed on two characteristic smooth intersecting hypersurfaces. From a suitable choice of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Marcel Dossa , Jean Baptiste Patenou

We make use of the metric version of the conformal Einstein field equations to construct anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes by means of a suitably posed initial-boundary value problem. The evolution system associated to this initial-boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Diego A. Carranza , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

This paper is concerned with the study of the well-posedeness for the initial boundary value problem to the time-fractional wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions. The problem is considered in a bounded and connected domain $\Omega…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Paulo M. de Carvalho-Neto , Cícero L. Frota , Pedro G. P. Torelli

The time-fractional diffusion equation is considered, where the time derivative is either of Caputo or Riemann-Liouville type. The solution of a general initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary conditions over bounded and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 M. Rodrigo

The regular finite initial value problem at infinity is used to obtain regularity conditions on the freely specifiable parts of initial data for the vacuum Einstein equations with non-vanishing second fundamental form. These conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-17 JA Valiente Kroon

We consider the Einstein-Boltzmann system for massless particles in the Bianchi I space-time with scattering cross-sections in a certain range of soft potentials. We assume that the space-time has an initial conformal gauge singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

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
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