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We prove local existence of solutions to the Einstein--null dust system under polarized $\mathbb U(1)$ symmetry in an elliptic gauge. Using in particular the previous work of the first author on the constraint equations, we show that one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Cécile Huneau , Jonathan Luk

We study the predictions for structure formation in an induced gravity dark energy model with a quartic potential. By developing a dedicated Einstein-Boltzmann code, we study self-consistently the dynamics of homogeneous cosmology and of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 Caterina Umiltà , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Daniela Paoletti

The classification of certain class of static solutions for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in vacuum is performed in $d\geq5$ dimensions. The class of metrics under consideration is such that the spacelike section is a warped product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Gustavo Dotti , Julio Oliva , Ricardo Troncoso

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

Solutions to Einstein's vacuum equations in three dimensions are locally maximally symmetric. They are distinguished by their global properties and their investigation often requires a choice of gauge. Although analyses of this sort have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-24 Luca Ciambelli , Charles Marteau , P. Marios Petropoulos , Romain Ruzziconi

In the Cauchy problem of general relativity one considers initial data that satisfies certain constraints. The evolution equations guarantee that the evolved variables will satisfy the constraints at later instants of time. This is only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We find new classes of exact solutions of the initial momentum constraint for vacuum Einstein's equations. Considered data are either invariant under a continuous symmetry or they are assumed to have the exterior curvature tensor of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-01 J. Tafel , M. Jóźwikowski

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations in the maximal gauge, or more generally, in a gauge where the mean curvature of a timelike foliation is fixed near the boundary. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

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 new formulation of constraint-preserving boundary conditions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 M. C. Babiuc , H-O. Kreiss , Jeffrey Winicour

This paper resolves the characteristic initial data problem for the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations - an open problem analogous to Christodoulou's characteristic initial value formulation for the vacuum Einstein field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yuxuan Wang , Sifan Yu , Pin Yu

Towards the investigation of the full dynamics in higher-dimensional and/or stringy gravitational model, we present the basic equations of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. We show $(N+1)$-dimensional version of the ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Takashi Torii , Hisa-aki Shinkai

The main goal of this work consists in showing that the analytic solutions for a class of characteristic problems for the Einstein vacuum equations have an existence region larger than the one provided by the Cauchy-Kowalevski theorem due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Giulio Caciotta , Francesco Nicolò

We address the problem of consistent Campiglia-Laddha superrotations in $d>4$ by solving Bondi-Sachs gauge vacuum Einstein equations at the non-linear level with the most general boundary conditions preserving the null nature of infinity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Federico Capone

The first step in the building of a spacetime solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations via the initial value formulation is finding a solution of the Einstein constraint equations. We recall the conformal method for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 James Isenberg

The stationary points of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of unit volume metrics on a given closed manifold are known to be precisely the Einstein metrics. One may consider the modified problem of finding stationary points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Justin Corvino , Michael Eichmair , Pengzi Miao

The Einstein initial-value equations in the extrinsic curvature (Hamiltonian) representation and conformal thin sandwich (Lagrangian) representation are brought into complete conformity by the use of a decomposition of symmetric tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , James W. York

A theorem of differential geometry is employed to locally embed a wide class of superstring backgrounds that admit a covariantly constant null Killing vector field in eleven-dimensional, Ricci-flat spaces. Included in this class are exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 James E. Lidsey

We present new classes of exact solutions with noncommutative symmetries constructed in vacuum Einstein gravity (in general, with nonzero cosmological constant), five dimensional (5D) gravity and (anti) de Sitter gauge gravity. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

A Hilbert manifold structure is described for the ADM phase space of asymptotically flat initial data $(g,\pi)$ with local $H^2\times H^1$ Sobolev regularity. Solutions of the constraint equations form a Hilbert submanifold. A regularized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Bartnik

Smooth Cauchy data for the Einstein-Lambda-vacuum field equations with positive cosmological constant Lambda that are sufficiently close to de Sitter data develop into a solution that admits a smooth conformal boundary Scri+ in its future.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Helmut Friedrich