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The regular finite initial value problem at infinity is used to obtain regularity conditions on the freely specifiable parts of initial data for the vacuum Einstein equations with non-vanishing second fundamental form. These conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-17 JA Valiente Kroon

In a recent work, Ringstr\"om proposed a geometric notion of initial data on big bang singularities. Moreover, he conjectured that initial data on the singularity could be used to parameterize quiescent solutions to Einstein's equations;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 Andrés Franco-Grisales

We show that there exist asymptotically flat almost-smooth initial data for Einstein-perfect fluid's equation that represent an isolated liquid-type body. By liquid-type body we mean that the fluid energy density has compact support and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Sergio Dain , Gabriel Nagy

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

When Einstein's equations for an asymptotically flat, vacuum spacetime are reexpressed in terms of an appropriate conformal metric that is regular at (future) null infinity, they develop apparently singular terms in the associated conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-01 Vincent Moncrief , Oliver Rinne

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

We consider the Einstein-Boltzmann system for massless particles in the Bianchi I space-time with scattering cross-sections in a certain range of soft potentials. We assume that the space-time has an initial conformal gauge singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

This paper revisits the classical construction of initial data using the conformal method, as originally proposed by Holst, Nagy, and Tsogtgerel and later refined by Maxwell. We demonstrate that the existence of the solution can be proven…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Armand Coudray , Romain Gicquaud

The aim of this article is to construct initial data for the Einstein equations on manifolds of the form R n+1 x T m , which are asymptotically flat at infinity, without assuming any symmetry condition in the compact direction. We use the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Cécile Huneau , Caterina Vâlcu

The Einstein constraint equations have been the subject of study for more than fifty years. The introduction of the conformal method in the 1970's as a parameterization of initial data for the Einstein equations led to increased interest in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-29 M. Holst , V. Kungurtsev

We derive a local curvature estimate for four-dimensional stationary solutions to the inheriting Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations. In particular, it implies that any such stationary geodesically complete solution with vanishing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Bing-Long Chen

These lectures are designed to provide a general introduction to the Einstein-Vlasov system and to the global Cauchy problem for these equations. To start with some general facts are collected and a local existence theorem for the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan D. Rendall

We study solutions to the static vacuum Einstein equations on exterior domains with prescribed metric and mean curvature on the inner boundary. It is proved that for any such boundary data near the standard round boundary data in Euclidean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-19 Michael T Anderson

We present a general construction of initial data for Einstein's equations containing an arbitrary number of black holes, each of which is instantaneously in equilibrium. Each black hole is taken to be a marginally trapped surface and plays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergio Dain , Jose Luis Jaramillo , Badri Krishnan

This lecture is devoted to the problem of computing initial data for the Cauchy problem of 3+1 general relativity. The main task is to solve the constraint equations. The conformal technique, introduced by Lichnerowicz and enhanced by York,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Gourgoulhon

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

We show that any polyhomogeneous asymptotically hyperbolic constant-mean-curvature solution to the vacuum Einstein constraint equations can be approximated, arbitrarily closely in H\"older norms determined by the physical metric, by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Paul T. Allen , Iva Stavrov Allen

Spacetime is foliated by spatial hypersurfaces in the 3+1 split of General Relativity. The initial value problem then consists of specifying initial data for all relevant fields on one such a spatial hypersurface. These fields are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-04 Wolfgang Tichy

We prove that in a certain class of conformal data on an asymptotically cylindrical manifold, if the conformally decomposed Einstein constraint equations do not admit a solution, then one can always find a nontrivial solution to the limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-22 James Dilts , Jeremy Leach

We construct a black hole initial data for the Einstein equations with prescribed scalar curvature, or more precisely a piece of initial data contained inside the black hole. The constraints translate into a parabolic equation, with radius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Bernold Fiedler , Juliette Hell , Brian Smith