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In this paper, we present a framework for getting a series of exact vacuum solutions to the Einstein equation. This procedure of resolution is based on a canonical form of the metric. According to this procedure, the Einstein equation can…

General Physics · Physics 2007-10-01 Ying-Qiu Gu

We investigate how the accuracy and stability of numerical relativity simulations of 1D colliding plane waves depends on choices of equation formulations, gauge conditions, boundary conditions, and numerical methods, all in the context of a…

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The collision of two plane gravitational waves in Einstein's theory of relativity can be described mathematically by a Goursat problem for the hyperbolic Ernst equation in a triangular domain. We use the integrable structure of the Ernst…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jonatan Lenells , Julian Mauersberger

New boundary conditions are imposed on the familiar cylindrical gravitational wave vacuum spacetimes. The new spacetime family represents cylindrical waves in a flat expanding (Kasner) universe. Space sections are flat and nonconical where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert H. Gowdy , B. Douglas Edmonds

We compute families of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations of the type of Brill waves, but with slow fall-off towards spatial infinity. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for physical data and numerically construct some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , James Wheeler

A generalized geometric method is developed for constructing exact solutions of gravitational field equations in Einstein theory and generalizations. First, we apply the formalism of nonholonomic frame deformations (formally considered for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

A proper-time method for constructing models of dynamic gravitational-wave fields is presented. Using the proper-time method, analytical (not numerical) models of secondary gravitational waves are constructed as perturbative solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Konstantin E. Osetrin

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

The almost scale-invariant spectrum for the stochastic background wave (in primordial Universe) is a firm prediction of inflationary scenarios. In the present work, to study of primordial Gravitational Waves, one dimensional toy model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami

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

This paper concerns the construction and analysis of a new family of exact general relativistic shock waves. The construction resolves the open problem of determining the expanding waves created behind a shock-wave explosion into a static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Christopher Alexander

We perform an optimal localization of asymptotically flat initial data sets and construct data that have positive ADM mass but are exactly trivial outside a cone of arbitrarily small aperture. The gluing scheme that we develop allows to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Alessandro Carlotto , Richard Schoen

A new class of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations with a perfect fluid source, variable gravitational coupling $G$ and cosmological term $\Lambda$ for FRW spacetime is obtained by considering variable deceleration parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anirudh Pradhan , Ajay Kumar Singh , Saeed Otarod

The models of New General Relativity have recently got attention of research community, and there are some works studying their dynamical properties. The formal aspects of this investigation have been mostly restricted to the primary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Alexey Golovnev , A. N. Semenova , V. P. Vandeev

A review of the treatment of boundaries in general relativity is presented with the emphasis on application to the formulations of Einstein's equations used in numerical relativity. At present, it is known how to treat boundaries in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeffrey Winicour

Gravitational waves are investigated in Intrinsic Time Geometrodynamics. This theory has a non-vanishing physical Hamiltonian generating intrinsic time development in our expanding universe, and four-covariance is explicitly broken by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-11 Eyo Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

We prove global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic (wave) coordinate gauge for the set of restricted data coinciding with Schwartzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity. The result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Hans Lindblad , Igor Rodnianski

Let $( \bar g, \bar k)$ be a solution to the maximal constraint equations of general relativity on the unit ball $B_1$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that if $(\bar g,\bar k)$ is sufficiently close to the initial data for Minkowski space, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Stefan Czimek

We use the mathematical framework of loop quantum gravity (LQG) to study the quantization of three dimensional (Riemannian) gravity with positive cosmological constant (Lambda>0). We show that the usual regularization techniques (successful…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Perez , Daniele Pranzetti

Gravitational waves offer a potent mean to test the underlying theory of gravity. In general theories of gravity, such as scalar-tensor theories, one expects modifications in the friction term and the sound speed in the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz , Jie Jiang , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang