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This is the first paper in a series aimed to implement boundary conditions consistent with the constraints' propagation in 3D numerical relativity. Here we consider spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes in vacuum or with a minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gioel Calabrese , Luis Lehner , Manuel Tiglio

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

We study the well-posedness of the initial value (Cauchy) problem of vacuum Einstein-aether theory. The latter is a Lorentz-violating gravitational theory consisting of General Relativity with a dynamical timelike 'aether' vector field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-08 Olivier Sarbach , Enrico Barausse , Jorge A. Preciado-López

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

We establish existence and uniqueness results for initial-boundary value problems for transport equations in one space dimension with nearly incompressible velocity fields, under the sole assumption that the fields are bounded. In the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Simone Dovetta , Elio Marconi , Laura V. Spinolo

The Cauchy problem of the vacuum Einstein's equations aims to find a semi-metric $g_{\alpha\beta}$ of a spacetime with vanishing Ricci curvature $R_{\alpha,\beta}$ and prescribed initial data. Under the harmonic gauge condition, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-23 Lavi Karp

This paper is concerned exclusively with axisymmetric spacetimes. We want to develop reductions of Einstein's equations which are suitable for numerical evolutions. We first make a Kaluza-Klein type dimensional reduction followed by an ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-22 Oliver Rinne , John M. Stewart

Specifying boundary conditions continues to be a challenge in numerical relativity in order to obtain a long time convergent numerical simulation of Einstein's equations in domains with artificial boundaries. In this paper, we address this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas N. Arnold , Nicolae Tarfulea

A Lax-Oleinik type explicit formula for 1D scalar balance laws has been recently obtained for the pure initial value problem by Adimurthi et al. in [1]. In this article, by introducing a suitable boundary functional, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Manas R. Sahoo , Abhrojyoti Sen , Manish Singh

We consider the initial-boundary value problem in the quarter space for the system of equations of ideal Magneto-Hydrodynamics for compressible fluids with perfectly conducting wall boundary conditions. On the two parts of the boundary the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Paolo Secchi

The null-timelike initial-boundary value problem for a hyperbolic system of equations consists of the evolution of data given on an initial characteristic surface and on a timelike worldtube to produce a solution in the exterior of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-16 H-O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

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

This article solves the initial boundary value problem for the vacuum Einstein equations with a negative cosmological constant in dimension 4, giving rise to asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spaces. We introduce a new family of geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Ludovic Souêtre

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

Initial-boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear partial differential equations have become tractable in recent years due to the development of so-called unified transform techniques. The main obstruction to applying these methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Peter D. Miller , Zhenyun Qin

An outstanding issue in the treatment of boundaries in general relativity is the lack of a local geometric interpretation of the necessary boundary data. For the Cauchy problem, the initial data is supplied by the 3-metric and extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-05 H-O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

We consider the motion of an inextensible hanging string of finite length under the action of the gravity. The motion is governed by nonlinear and nonlocal hyperbolic equations, which is degenerate at the free end of the string. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Tatsuo Iguchi , Masahiro Takayama

This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem of a 2-D parabolic-elliptic system proposed to model the formation of biological transport networks. Even if global weak solutions for this system are known to exist,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Jose A. Carrillo , Bin Li , Li Xie

It was shown recently that the constraints on the initial data for Einstein's equations may be posed as an evolutionary problem [9]. In one of the proposed two methods the constraints can be replaced by a first order symmetrizable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 István Rácz , Jeffrey Winicour

This paper is a continuation of our previous paper \cite{d1} on the initial boundary value problem for a nonconservative system appearing in elastodynamics in the space time domain $x>0,t>0$. There, the initial and boundary data were…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Kayyunnapara Divya Joseph , P. A Dinesh