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The gluing technique is used to construct hypersurfaces in Euclidean space having approximately constant prescribed mean curvature. These surfaces are perturbations of unions of finitely many spheres of the same radius assembled end-to-end…

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We construct manifold structures on various sets of solutions of the general relativistic initial data sets.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Erwann Delay

The Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation is globally well-posed for smooth initial data. In this paper, we show that for a dense $G_\delta$ set of initial data, the solutions lose regularity in infinite time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Thomas Alazard , Ayman Rimah Said

We study the utilization of conformal compactification within the conformal approach to solving the constraints of general relativity for asymptotically flat initial data. After a general discussion of the framework, particular attention is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sascha Husa

The techniques developed by Butscher in arXiv:math/0703469 for constructing constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in the (n+1)-sphere by gluing together spherical building blocks are generalized to handle less symmetric initial…

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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

We first show that the connected sum along submanifolds introduced by the second author for compact initial data sets of the vacuum Einstein system can be adapted to the asymptotically Euclidean and to the asymptotically hyperbolic context.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Erwann Delay , Lorenzo Mazzieri

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 analyze existence and properties of solutions of two-dimensional general relativistic initial data sets with a negative cosmological constant, both on spacelike and characteristic surfaces. A new family of such vacuum, spacelike data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Piotr T. Chruściel , Wan Cong , Théophile Quéau , Raphaela Wutte

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

A classical problem in general relativity is the Cauchy problem for the linearised Einstein equation (the initial value problem for gravitational waves) on a globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetime. A well-known result is that it is uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Oliver Lindblad Petersen

We consider Lorentzian General Relativity in a cavity with a timelike boundary, with conformal boundary conditions and also a generalization of these boundary conditions. We focus on the linearized gravitational dynamics about the static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Xiaoyi Liu , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos , Toby Wiseman

A dual foliation treatment of General Relativity is presented. The basic idea of the construction is to consider two foliations of a spacetime by spacelike hypersurfaces and relate the two geometries. The treatment is expected to be useful…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-08 David Hilditch

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-fluid constraint equations, and make use of the conformal method to construct and parametrize constant-mean-curvature hyperboloidal initial data sets that satisfy the shear-free condition. This condition is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Paul T. Allen , James Isenberg , John M. Lee , Iva Stavrov Allen

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

To construct asymptotically-Euclidean Einstein's initial data sets, we introduce the localized seed-to-solution method, which projects from approximate to exact solutions of the Einstein constraints. The method enables us to glue together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-07 Bruno Le Floch , Philippe G. LeFloch

We investigate how to glue hyperconvex (or injective) metric spaces such that the resulting space remains hyperconvex. We give two new criteria, saying that on the one hand gluing along strongly convex subsets and on the other hand gluing…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Benjamin Miesch

This thesis is framed within the field of Mathematical Relativity and is organized into six chapters. After an introduction to the topic in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 reviews and further develops the formalism of hypersurface data, which provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Gabriel Sánchez-Pérez

In this paper we introduce the characteristic gluing problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We present a codimension-$10$ gluing construction for characteristic initial data which are close to the Minkowski data and we show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Stefanos Aretakis , Stefan Czimek , Igor Rodnianski

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…

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