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We prove positive mass theorem with angular momentum and charges for axially symmetric, simply connected, maximal, complete initial data sets with two ends, one designated asymptotically flat and the other either (Kaluza-Klein)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Aghil Alaee , Shing-Tung Yau

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…

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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

Certain aspects of the behaviour of the gravitational field near null and spatial infinity for the developments of asymptotically Euclidean, conformally flat initial data sets are analysed. Ideas and results from two different approaches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Valiente Kroon

An important, if relatively less well known aspect of the singularity theorems in Lorentzian Geometry is to understand how their conclusions fare upon weakening or suppression of one or more of their hypotheses. Then, theorems with modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 I. P. Costa e Silva , J. L. Flores

We describe a proof of M.T. Anderson's result on the rigidity of complete stationary initial data for the Einstein vacuum equations in spacetime dimension 3 + 1, under an extra assumption on the norm of the stationary Killing vector field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-05 Julien Cortier , Vincent Minerbe

Improving a singularity theorem in General Relativity by Galloway and Ling we show the following (cf.\ Theorem 1): If a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$ satisfying the null energy condition contains a closed, spacelike Cauchy surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Eric Ling , Carl Rossdeutscher , Walter Simon , Roland Steinbauer

We discuss here the issue of regularity of initial data for dynamical spherically symmetric massless scalar field models in a spacetime. Generalizing the known solutions of Einstein equations given in this case by Wyman and Roberts, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-07 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi

We investigate the Bartnik stationary extension conjecture, which arises from the definition of the spacetime Bartnik mass for a compact region in a general initial data set satisfying the dominant energy condition. This conjecture posits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Ahmed Ellithy

The initial value problem is well-defined on a class of spacetimes broader than the globally hyperbolic geometries for which existence and uniqueness theorems are traditionally proved. Simple examples are the time-nonorientable spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John L. Friedman

The aim of this paper is to extend some basic results about marginally outer trapped surfaces to the context of surfaces having general null expansion. Motivated in part by recent work of Chai-Wan, we introduce the notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Gregory J. Galloway , Abraão Mendes

In the first of two papers, we study the initial boundary-value problem that underlies the theory of the Boltzmann equation for general non-spherical hard particles. In this work, for two congruent ellipses and for a large class of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Mark Wilkinson

We present a local gluing construction for general relativistic initial data sets. The method applies to generic initial data, in a sense which is made precise. In particular the trace of the extrinsic curvature is not assumed to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Piotr T. Chrusciel , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

We analyze the Cauchy problem for the vacuum Einstein equations with data on a complete light-cone in an asymptotically Minkowskian space-time. We provide conditions on the free initial data which guarantee existence of global solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Piotr T. Chruściel , Tim-Torben Paetz

In certain models of conformal gravity, the propagation of gravitational waves is governed by a fourth order scalar partial differential equation. We study the initial value problem for a generalization of this equation, and derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Sanjeev S. Seahra

Birkhoff's theorem is a classic result that characterizes locally spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations. In this paper, we illustrate the consequences of its local nature for the cases of vacuum and positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

We provide a new proof of the equality case of the spacetime positive mass theorem, which states that if a complete asymptotically flat initial data set $(M, g, k)$ satisfying the dominant energy condition has null ADM energy-momentum (that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

We study the Einstein-scalar field system with positive cosmological constant and spherically symmetric characteristic initial data given on a truncated null cone. We prove well-posedness, global existence and exponential decay in (Bondi)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Joao L. Costa , Artur Alho , Jose Natario

We introduce first-time sensitivity for a homeomorphism of a compact metric space, that is a condition on the first increasing times of open balls of the space. Continuum-wise expansive homeomorphisms, the shift map on the Hilbert cube, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Mayara Antunes , Bernardo Carvalho