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In this paper we continue earlier investigations of evolutionary formulations of the Einstein vacuum constraint equations originally introduced by R\'{a}cz. Motivated by the strong evidence from these works that the resulting vacuum initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Florian Beyer , Jörg Frauendiener , Joshua Ritchie

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability in exponential time of Minkowki space-time with a translation space-like Killing field. In the presence of such a symmetry, the 3 + 1 vacuum Einstein equations reduce to the 2 + 1 Einstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Cécile Huneau

Consider the spatially inhomogeneous Landau equation with moderately soft potentials (i.e. with $\gamma \in (-2,0)$) on the whole space $\mathbb R^3$. We prove that if the initial data $f_{\mathrm{in}}$ are close to the vacuum solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jonathan Luk

We give a lower bound for the Lorentz length of the ADM energy-momentum vector (ADM mass) of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat initial data sets for the Einstein equations. The bound is given in terms of linear growth `spacetime harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri

We give new proofs of general relativistic initial data gluing results on unit-scale annuli based on explicit solution operators for the linearized constraint equation around the flat case with prescribed support properties. These results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Yuchen Mao , Sung-Jin Oh , Zhongkai Tao

Given a time symmetric initial data set for the vacuum Einstein field equations which is conformally flat near infinity, it is shown that the solutions to the regular finite initial value problem at spatial infinity extend smoothly through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan A. Valiente Kroon

This paper aims to study the relationship between the timelike extremal hypersurfaces and the classical minimal surfaces. This target also gives the long time dynamics of timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Weiping Yan , Weijia Li

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

We construct perturbations of Minkowski spacetime in general relativity, when given initial data that decays inverse polynomially to initial data of a Kerr spacetime towards spacelike infinity. We show that the perturbations admit a regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Andrea Nützi

We prove global existence for solutions arising from small initial data for a large class of quasilinear wave equations satisfying the `weak null condition' of Lindblad and Rodnianski, significantly enlarging upon the class of equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Joseph Keir

We show that the nonlinear wave equation corresponding to the minimal surface equation in Minkowski space time has global solutions for sufficiently small initial data. This is an interesting model in Lorentziann and is also the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Lindblad

In 1981, Schoen-Yau and Witten showed that in General Relativity both the total energy $E$ and the total mass $m$ of an initial data set modeling an isolated gravitational system are non-negative. Moreover, if $E=0$, the initial data set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Sven Hirsch , Yiyue Zhang

We consider the Cauchy problem for the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with polynomially decaying initial data in the velocity variable. We establish short-time existence for any initial data with this decay in a fifth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

The theory presented in this monograph establishes the first mathematically rigorous result on the global nonlinear stability of self-gravitating matter under small perturbations of an asymptotically flat, spacelike hypersurface of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-04 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma

In this article we develop some new existence results for the Einstein constraint equations using the Lichnerowicz-York conformal rescaling method. The mean extrinsic curvature is taken to be an arbitrary smooth function without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-13 M. Holst , G. Nagy , G. Tsogtgerel

We show that the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar-field equations for wave-like decaying initial data at null infinity have unique local solutions and unique global solutions for small initial data. We also generalize Christodoulou's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Chuxiao Liu , Xiao Zhang

We discuss the implementation, to the case of compact manifolds, of the perturbative method of Friedrich-Butscher for the construction of solutions to the vaccum Einstein constraint equations. This method is of a perturbative nature and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 J. A. Valiente Kroon , J. L. Williams

Results on the behaviour in the past time direction of cosmological models with collisionless matter and a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are presented. It is shown that under the assumption of non-positive $\Lambda$ and spherical or plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sophonie Blaise Tchapnda

In 1993, the global stability of Minkowski spacetime has been proven in the celebrated work of Christodoulou and Klainerman \cite{Ch-Kl} in a maximal foliation. In 2003, Klainerman and Nic\`olo \cite{Kl-Ni} gave a second proof of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dawei Shen

We find new classes of exact solutions of the initial momentum constraint for vacuum Einstein's equations. Considered data are either invariant under a continuous symmetry or they are assumed to have the exterior curvature tensor of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-01 J. Tafel , M. Jóźwikowski