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We study the nonlinear stability of the $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime as a solution of the Einstein vacuum equation. Similarly to our previous work on the stability of cosmological black holes, we construct the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peter Hintz , András Vasy

The nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime has been one of the central achievements in the mathematical theory of general relativity and, more broadly, in the analysis of nonlinear geometric wave equations. Since the seminal work of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Dawei Shen

The rigidity statement of the positive mass theorem asserts that an asymptotically flat initial data set for the Einstein equations with zero ADM mass, and satisfying the dominant energy condition, must arise from an embedding into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Edward Bryden , Marcus Khuri , Christina Sormani

We consider the Euler equations governing relativistic compressible fluids evolving in the Minkowski spacetime with several spatial variables. We propose a new symmetrization which makes sense for solutions containing vacuum states and, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-24 Philippe G. LeFloch , Seiji Ukai

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for an initial data set for the vacuum conformal Einstein field equations to give rise to a spacetime development in possession of a Killing spinor. The fact that the conformal Einstein field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Edgar Gasperin , Jarrod L. Williams

Linear perturbations on Minkowski space are used to probe numerically the remote region of an asymptotically flat space-time close to spatial infinity. The study is undertaken within the framework of Friedrich's conformal field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-04 Florian Beyer , Georgios Doulis , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

An existence and stability result for a class of purely radiative vacuum spacetimes arising from hyperboloidal data is given. This result generalises semiglobal existence results for Minkowski-like spacetimes to the case where the reference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Lübbe , J. A. Valiente Kroon

The emergence of the concept of a causal fermion system is revisited and further investigated for the vacuum Dirac equation in Minkowski space. After a brief recap of the Dirac equation and its solution space, in order to allow for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Marco Oppio

With the example of the spherically symmetric scalar wave equation on Minkowski space-time we demonstrate that a fully pseudospectral scheme (i.e. spectral with respect to both spatial and time directions) can be applied for solving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Jörg Hennig , Marcus Ansorg

We investigate the Einstein vacuum equations as well as the Einstein-null fluid equations describing neutrino radiation. We find new structures in gravitational waves and memory for asymptotically-flat spacetimes of slow decay. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-07 Lydia Bieri

We show the existence of complete, asymptotically flat Cauchy initial data for the vacuum Einstein field equations, free of trapped surfaces, whose future development must admit a trapped surface. Moreover, the datum is exactly a constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-16 Junbin Li , Pin Yu

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

In the mathematical physics literature, there are heuristic arguments, going back three decades, suggesting that for an open set of initially smooth solutions to the Einstein-vacuum equations in high dimensions, stable, approximately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Igor Rodnianski , Jared Speck

Over the past few decades, significant effort has been directed towards developing various regularized models for compact objects. Recently, a new observable-based parametrization was introduced to account for black hole deformations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Mattia Damia Paciarini , Mikołaj Myszkowski , Francesco Sannino , Vania Vellucci

We consider weakly regular Gowdy-symmetric spacetimes on T3 satisfying the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity, and we solve the initial value problem when the initial data set has bounded variation, only, so that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Nastasia Grubic , Philippe G. LeFloch

The NP constants of massless spin-0 fields propagating in Minkowski spacetime are computed close to spatial and null infinity by means of Friedrich's \emph{$i^0$-cylinder}. Assuming certain regularity condition on the initial data ensuring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Edgar Gasperin , Rafael Pinto

We introduce the concept of improvability of the dominant energy scalar, and we derive strong consequences of non-improvability. In particular, we prove that a non-improvable initial data set without local symmetries must sit inside a null…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

One method of studying the asymptotic structure of spacetime is to apply Penrose's conformal rescaling technique. In this setting, the Einstein equations for the metric and the conformal factor in the unphysical spacetime degenerate where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher

We construct discrete versions of $\kappa$-Minkowski space related to a certain compactness of the time coordinate. We show that these models fit into the framework of noncommutative geometry in the sense of spectral triples. The dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-28 Bruno Iochum , Thierry Masson , Thomas Schücker , Andrzej Sitarz

In this note, we show that the conical solution-operator method of Mao-Tao in [Localized initial data for Einstein equations] applies to a simple construction of vacuum asymptotically flat initial data at minimal and borderline decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Dawei Shen , Jingbo Wan