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This is the second paper in a series of papers adressing the characteristic gluing problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We solve the codimension-$10$ characteristic gluing problem for characteristic data which are close to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Stefanos Aretakis , Stefan Czimek , Igor Rodnianski

The characteristic initial boundary problem is discussed in spherical symmetry for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field equations. It is formulated for an affine-null metric and the resulting field equations are cast into a hierarchical system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Thomas Mädler , Radouane Gannouji , Emanuel Gallo

We investigate the asymptotic stability of solutions to the characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein (massless) scalar field system with a positive cosmological constant. We prescribe spherically symmetric initial data on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 João L. Costa , Rodrigo Duarte , Filipe C. Mena

This article is a guide to the literature on existence theorems for the Einstein equations which also draws attention to open problems in the field. The local in time Cauchy problem, which is relatively well understood, is treated first.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Alan D. Rendall

We analyze existence and properties of solutions of two-dimensional general relativistic initial data sets with a negative cosmological constant, both on spacelike and characteristic surfaces. A new family of such vacuum, spacelike data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Piotr T. Chruściel , Wan Cong , Théophile Quéau , Raphaela Wutte

We investigate the existence and the global causal structure of plane symmetric spacetimes with weak regularity when the matter consists of an irrotational perfect fluid with pressure equal to its mass-energy density. Our theory encompasses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-16 Philippe G. LeFloch , John M. Stewart

The drift method, introduced by the second author, provides a new formulation of the Einstein constraint equations, either in vacuum or with matter fields. The natural of the geometry underlying this method compensates for its slightly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-31 Mike Holst , David Maxwell , Rafe Mazzeo

In this article, it is shown how the extended conformal Einstein field equations and a gauge based on the properties of conformal geodesics can be used to analyse the non-linear stability of de Sitter-like spacetimes with spatial sections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-09 Marica Minucci , Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

We consider a characteristic problem of the vacuum Einstein equations with part of the initial data given on a future complete null cone with suitable decay, and show that the solution exists uniformly around the null cone for general such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-03 Junbin Li , Xi-Ping Zhu

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 give a new proof of the recent result by Fournodavlos-Schlue on the nonlinear stability of the expanding region of Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes as solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant. Our gauge is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Peter Hintz , András Vasy

We study the existence of positive solutions for a parameter-dependent nonlocal boundary value problem involving a Caputo fractional derivative, which generalizes a classic thermostat model. Our approach extends previous work by considering…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Gennaro Infante , Takieddine Zeghida

We show that for a very general class of curvature functions defined in the positive cone, the problem of finding a complete strictly locally convex hypersurface in $H^n+1$ satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma\in(0, 1)$ with a prescribed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Bo Guan , Joel Spruck , Ling Xiao

We reformulate the standard local equations of general relativity for asymptotically flat spacetimes in terms of two non-local quantities, the holonomy $H$ around certain closed null loops on characteristic surfaces and the light cone cut…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Savitri V. Iyer , Carlos N. Kozameh , Ezra T. Newman

A method for the search of exact solutions for equation of a nonlocal scalar field in a non-flat metric is considered. In the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric the proposed method can be used in the case of an arbitrary potential, with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Sergey Yu. Vernov

We study the initial value problem in Einstein-Cartan theory which includes torsion and, therefore, a non-symmetric connection on the spacetime manifold. Generalizing the path of a classical theorem by Choquet-Bruhat and York for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Paulo Luz , Filipe C. Mena

We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

We study locally spatially homogeneous solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system with a positive cosmological constant. First the global existence of solutions of this system and the casual geodesic completeness are shown. Then the asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hayoung Lee

It is found that, in addition to the conventional ones, a local approach to the relativistic quantum field theories at both zero and finite density consistent with the violation of Bell like inequalities should contain, and provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ying

We discuss the initial value problem for the Einstein equations in Hitchin's generalised geometry for the case of closed divergence (which correspond to the equations of motion in the bosonic part of the NS-NS sector in type II…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Oskar Schiller