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We study the constraint equations for a class of scalar-tensor effective field theories of gravity, including the operators up to $4$ derivatives in the action ($4\partial$ST). We extend the conformal transverse traceless and conformal thin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Aron D Kovacs

This article is concerned with the derivation of the Gauss-Codazzi's constraints equations on the initial light cone for geometric transport equations in general relativity. Temporal-gauge-dependent constraints are addressed too and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Patenou Jean Baptiste

Given a collection of N solutions of the (3+1) vacuum Einstein constraint equations which are asymptotically Euclidean, we show how to construct a new solution of the constraints which is itself asymptotically Euclidean, and which contains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Piotr T. Chruściel , Justin Corvino , James Isenberg

We extend Dain's construction of a geometric invariant characterising static initial data sets for the vacuum Einstein field equations to situations with a non-vanishing extrinsic curvature. This invariant gives a measure of how much the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-15 Juan A. Valiente Kroon , Jarrod L. Williams

The constraints on the asymptotic behavior of the conformal factor and conformal extrinsic curvature imposed by the initial value equations of general relativity on constant mean extrinsic curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces are analyzed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 James M. Bardeen , Luisa T. Buchman

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

The goal of this article is to parametrise solutions to Einstein's equations with big bang singularities and quiescent asymptotics. To this end, we introduce a notion of initial data on big bang singularities and conjecture that it can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Hans Ringström

In this second work in a series, we prove the local-in-time well-posedness of the IBVP for the vacuum Einstein equations with Dirichlet boundary data on a finite timelike boundary, provided the Brown-York stress tensor of the boundary is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Zhongshan An , Michael T. Anderson

Finite dimensional models that mimic the constraint structure of Einstein's General Relativity are quantized in the framework of BRST and Dirac's canonical formalisms. The first system to be studied is one featuring a constraint quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel M. Sforza

We investigate the effect on the Hamiltonian structure of general relativity of choosing an intrinsic time to fix the time slicing. 3-covariance with momentum constraint is maintained, but the Hamiltonian constraint is replaced by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-30 Niall Ó Murchadha , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

The conformal method is a technique for finding Cauchy data in general relativity solving the Einstein constraint equations, and its parameters include a conformal class, a conformal momentum (as measured by a densitized lapse), and a mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-08 David Maxwell

We revisit the Lichnerowicz-York method, and an alternative method of York, in order to obtain some conformally covariant systems. This type of parameterization is certainly more natural for non constant mean curvature initial data.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Erwann Delay

An outstanding issue in the treatment of boundaries in general relativity is the lack of a local geometric interpretation of the necessary boundary data. For the Cauchy problem, the initial data is supplied by the 3-metric and extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-05 H-O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

In [20], we derived representation formulae for spatially periodic solutions to the generalized, inviscid Proudman-Johnson equation and studied their regularity for several classes of initial data. The purpose of this paper is to extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Alejandro Sarria , Ralph Saxton

We show how to prescribe the initial data of a characteristic problem satisfying the costraints, the smallness, the regularity and the asymptotic decay suitable to prove a global existence result. In this paper, the first of two, we show in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Caciotta , Francesco Nicolò

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

The Cauchy problem of the vacuum Einstein's equations aims to find a semi-metric $g_{\alpha\beta}$ of a spacetime with vanishing Ricci curvature $R_{\alpha,\beta}$ and prescribed initial data. Under the harmonic gauge condition, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-23 Lavi Karp

Vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations can be viewed as the interplay between the geometry and the gravitational wave energy content. The constraints on initial data reflect this interaction. We assume we are looking at cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Shan Bai , Niall Ó Murchadha

We construct high-frequency initial data for the Einstein vacuum equations in dimension 3+1 by solving the constraint equations on $\mathbb{R}^3$. Our family of solutions $(\bar{g}_\lambda,K_\lambda)_{\lambda\in(0,1]}$ is defined through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Arthur Touati

We construct large classes of vacuum general relativistic initial data sets, possibly with a cosmological constant Lambda, containing ends of cylindrical type.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-08 Piotr T. Chruściel , Rafe Mazzeo