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We prove the well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein equations with sole boundary condition the requirement that the timelike boundary is totally geodesic. This provides the first well-posedness result for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

We analyze the initial value problem for semilinear wave equations on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces using energy methods adapted to the geometry of the problem at infinity. The key feature is that the coefficients become strongly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Alberto Enciso , Niky Kamran

In this paper, we deal with the initial value problem for a class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with a singular Dirichlet boundary condition in one space dimension. The interior equation includes, for example, a fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Takashi Kagaya

We prove that, for a given spherically symmetric fluid distribution with tangential pressure on an initial spacelike hypersurface with a timelike boundary, there exists a unique, local in time solution to the Einstein equations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Irene Brito , Filipe C. Mena

Evolution PDEs for dispersive waves are considered in both linear and nonlinear integrable cases, and initial-boundary value problems associated with them are formulated in spectral space. A method of solution is presented, which is based…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Degasperis , S. V. Manakov , P. M. Santini

We provide a formulation of the initial boundary value problem for Friedrich's extended conformal Einstein field equations in which boundary data is prescribed on a timelike hypersurface located at a finite position in the spacetime. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Chris Stevens , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

In this paper we consider an initial boundary value problem for a semilinear parabolic equation with absorption and nonlinear nonlocal Neumann boundary condition. We prove comparison principle, the existence theorem of a local solution and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Alexander Gladkov

We present two families of first-order in time and second-order in space formulations of the Einstein equations (variants of the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formulation) that admit a complete set of characteristic variables and a conserved energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carsten Gundlach , Jose M. Martin-Garcia

A unified general approach is presented for construction of solutions of the characteristic initial value problems for various integrable hyperbolic reductions of Einstein's equations for space-times with two commuting isometries in General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. A. Alekseev

The relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system of plasma physics is considered with initial data on a past light cone. This characteristic initial value problem arises in a natural way as a mathematical framework to study the existence of solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Calogero

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for systems of quasilinear wave equations on domains of the form $[0,T] \times \Sigma$, where $\Sigma$ is a compact manifold with smooth boundaries $\partial\Sigma$. By using an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-23 H. -O. Kreiss , O. Reula , O. Sarbach , J. Winicour

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the quarter plane $x>0,t>0$ in the case of decaying initial data (for $t=0$, as $x\to +\infty$) and the Robin boundary condition at $x=0$.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-02-08 Alexander Its , Dmitry Shepelsky

Using the Newman-Penrose formalism we study the characteristic initial value problem in vacuum General Relativity. We work in a gauge suggested by Stewart, and following the strategy taken in the work of Luk, demonstrate local existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 David Hilditch , Juan A. Valiente Kroon , Peng Zhao

A Lax-Oleinik type explicit formula for 1D scalar balance laws has been recently obtained for the pure initial value problem by Adimurthi et al. in [1]. In this article, by introducing a suitable boundary functional, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Manas R. Sahoo , Abhrojyoti Sen , Manish Singh

We consider the initial boundary value problem for free-evolution formulations of general relativity coupled to a parametrized family of coordinate conditions that includes both the moving puncture and harmonic gauges. We concentrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 David Hilditch , Milton Ruiz

We investigate the well-posedness of the characteristic initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations in Bondi-like coordinates (including Bondi, double-null and affine). We propose a definition of strong hyperbolicity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Carsten Gundlach

The stationary, axisymmetric reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations, the so-called Ernst equation, is an integrable nonlinear PDE in two dimensions. There now exists a general method for analyzing boundary value problems for integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Lenells , A. S. Fokas

We consider the hyperboloidal initial value problem in numerical relativity, motivated by the goal to evolve radiating compact objects such as black hole binaries with a numerical grid that includes null infinity. Unconstrained evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 Alex Vañó-Viñuales , Sascha Husa , David Hilditch

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

A Cauchy-characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system with spherical symmetry is presented. Initial data are specified on the union of a space-like and null hypersurface. The development of the data is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Roberto Go'mez , Pablo Laguna , Philippos Papadopoulos , Jeff Winicour