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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

We study the problem of gravitational collapse in the context of scalar-tensor theories of Gravity. We introduce a new hydrodynamical formulation in the Einstein frame, inspired by that of Misner and Sharp. We obtain the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis Diaz-Gimenez

Finite difference method and pseudo-spectral method have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Zhoujian Cao , Pei Fu , Li-Wei Ji , Yinhua Xia

This paper is concerned with the Einstein equations in axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes. We consider numerical evolution schemes that solve the constraint equations as well as elliptic gauge conditions at each time step. We examine two such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oliver Rinne

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

We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel E. Tohline

In this work, we study of the algebraic-hyperbolic formulation of the Einstein constraint equations for numerically constructing initial data sets for inhomogeneous cosmological space-times with $\mathbb{T}^3$ topology. We implement a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alejandro Estrada-Llesta , Cristhian Martinez-Duarte , Leon Escobar-Diaz

This paper deals with the evolution of the Einstein gravitational fields which are coupled to a perfect fluid. We consider the Einstein--Euler system in asymptotically flat spacestimes and therefore use the condition that the energy density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Uwe Brauer , Lavi Karp

We study the stability of three-dimensional numerical evolutions of the Einstein equations, comparing the standard ADM formulation to variations on a family of formulations that separate out the conformal and traceless parts of the system.…

We present a new formulation of the Einstein equations that casts them in an explicitly first order, flux-conservative, hyperbolic form. We show that this now can be done for a wide class of time slicing conditions, including maximal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Carles Bona , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Joan Stela

We examine the problem of the gravitational collapse using higher dimensional Husain spacetime for the null fluid. The equations of state chosen to solve the field equations contain linear, quadratic and arbitrary powers of the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-17 Mubasher Jamil , Umar Farooq

In this paper, in an FLRW background and a perfect fluid equation of state, we explore the possibility of the realization of an emergent scenario in a 4D regularized extension of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, with the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-12 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan

A nonstatic and circularly symmetric exact solution of the Einstein equations (with a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and null fluid) in $2+1$ dimensions is given. This is a nonstatic generalization of the uncharged spinless BTZ metric. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 K. S. Virbhadra

Solving Einstein's equations precisely for strong-field gravitational systems is essential to determining the full physics content of gravitational wave detections. Without these solutions it is not possible to infer precise values for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Robert A. Eisenstein

We present a code for solving the coupled Einstein-hydrodynamics equations to evolve relativistic, self-gravitating fluids. The Einstein field equations are solved in generalized harmonic coordinates on one grid using pseudospectral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We review recent efforts to re-formulate the Einstein equations for fully relativistic numerical simulations. In order to complete a long-term and accurate simulations of binary compact objects, people seek a robust set of equations against…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-02 Hisa-aki Shinkai

We expand previous work on an inverse approach to Einstein Field Equations where we include fluids with energy flux and consider the vanishing of the anisotropic stress tensor. We consider the approach using warped product spacetimes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 James Richardson , Mustapha Ishak

In this work we propose a new procedure for to extract global information of a space-time. We considered a space-time immersed in a higher dimensional space and we formulate the equations of Einstein through of the Frobenius conditions to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Edmundo M. Monte

We reexamine the gravitational collapse of rotating neutron stars to black holes by new 3+1 numerical relativity simulations employing the Z4c formulation of Einstein equations, the moving puncture gauge conditions, and a conservative mesh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

In this paper we provide a method capable of producing an infinite number of solutions for Einstein's equation on static spacetimes with perfect fluid as a matter field. All spacetimes of this type which are symmetric with respect to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Marcelo Barbosa , Benedito Leandro , Romildo Pina