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One method of studying the asymptotic structure of spacetime is to apply Penrose's conformal rescaling technique. In this setting, the Einstein equations for the metric and the conformal factor in the unphysical spacetime degenerate where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher

We introduce a new geometrically invariant prescription for comparing two different spacetimes based on geodesic deviation. We use this method to compare a family of recently introduced analytical spacetime representing inspiraling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Jam Sadiq , Yosef Zlochower , Hiroyuki Nakano

An analysis of conformal geodesics in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter families of spacetimes is given. For both families of spacetimes we show that initial data on a spacelike hypersurface can be given such that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , Edgar Gasperin , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

The Hyperboloidal Foliation Method (introduced by the authors in 2014) is extended here and applied to the Einstein equations of general relativity. Specifically, we establish the nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma

We present a systematic study of static solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant which asymptotically approach the generalized Kottler (``Schwarzschild--anti-de Sitter'') solution, within (mainly) a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Walter Simon

We prove the nonlinear stability of the cosmological region of Kerr de Sitter spacetimes. More precisely, we show that solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant arising from data on a cylinder that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Volker Schlue

We analyze the conformal Einstein equation with a positive cosmological constant to extract fall-off conditions of the gravitational fields. The fall-off conditions are consistent with a finite, non-trivial presymplectic current on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Sk Jahanur Hoque , Pavel Krtouš , Carlos Peón-Nieto

The spinorial version of the conformal vacuum Einstein field equations are used to construct a system of quasilinear wave equations for the various conformal fields. As a part of the analysis we also show how to construct a subsidiary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Edgar Gasperin , Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

This is the first in a series of articles on the numerical solution of Friedrich's conformal field equations for Einstein's theory of gravity. We will discuss in this paper why one should be interested in applying the conformal method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 J. Frauendiener

It is shown that solutions to Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant can include non-zero rest-mass fields which coexist with and travel unimpeded across a smooth conformal boundary. This is exemplified by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-20 Helmut Friedrich

We study gravitational theories with a cosmological constant and the Gauss-Bonnet curvature squared term and analyze the possibility of de Sitter expanding spacetime with a constant internal space. We find that there are two branches of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Kei-ichi Maeda , Nobuyoshi Ohta

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 investigate the relevance of the conformal method by investigating stability issues for the Einstein-Lichnerowicz conformal constraint system in a nonlinear scalar-field setting. We prove the stability of the system with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Bruno Premoselli

The conformal structure of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is analysed using the extended conformal Einstein field equations. To this end, initial data for an asymptotic initial value problem for the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-20 Edgar Gasperin , Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

We consider the global evolution problem for Einstein's field equations in the near-Minkowski regime and study the long-time dynamics of a massive scalar field evolving under its own gravitational field. We establish the existence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-06 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma

This is a short review of a series of papers which, in collaboration with Yue Ma, establish several novel existence results for systems of coupled wave-Klein-Gordon equation. Our method, the Hyperbolic Hyperboloidal Method, has allowed us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Philippe G. LeFloch

Mathematical modeling of gravitating configurations of physical fields is one of the priority directions of the modern theory of gravity. Most of the exact solutions constructed within the framework of the general relativity are static or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-03 Ju V Tchemarina , E G Alekseeva , A N Tsirulev , N K Nuraliev

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

We survey some results on scalar curvature and properties of solutions to the Einstein constraint equations. Topics include an extended discussion of asymptotically flat solutions to the constraint equations, including recent results on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-25 Justin Corvino , Daniel Pollack

The field equations of the recent nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation are presented in a form that is reminiscent of general relativity. The implications of the nonlocal field equations are studied in the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-24 Donato Bini , Bahram Mashhoon