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Shibata, Ury\=u and Friedman recently suggested a new decomposition of Einstein's equations that is useful for constructing initial data. In contrast to previous decompositions, the conformal metric is no longer treated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Gregory B. Cook , Thomas W. Baumgarte

We present a new formulation of the multipolar expansion of an exact boundary condition for the wave equation, which is truncated at the quadrupolar order. Using an auxiliary function, that is the solution of a wave equation on the sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jerome Novak , Silvano Bonazzola

In this paper, we introduce the notion of boundary delay equations, establishing a unified framework for analyzing linear time-invariant systems with pure time-delayed boundary conditions. We establish mild sufficient conditions for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Yassine El Gantouh , Yang Liu

The divergence of the constraint quantities is a major problem in computational gravity today. Apparently, there are two sources for constraint violations. The use of boundary conditions which are not compatible with the constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Frauendiener , Tilman Vogel

We initiate a systematic study of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in the presence of boundaries subject to conformal boundary conditions, in which the conformal class of the boundary metric is kept fixed. In Einstein gravity, the trace of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Damián A. Galante , Robert C. Myers , Themistocles Zikopoulos

We derive new boundary conditions and implementation procedures for nonlinear initial boundary value problems that lead to energy and entropy bounded solutions. A step-by-step procedure for general nonlinear hyperbolic problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Jan Nordström

In this work, we study of the algebraic-hyperbolic formulation of the Einstein constraint equations for numerically constructing initial data sets for inhomogeneous cosmological space-times with $\mathbb{T}^3$ topology. We implement a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alejandro Estrada-Llesta , Cristhian Martinez-Duarte , Leon Escobar-Diaz

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for systems of quasilinear wave equations on domains of the form $[0,T] \times \Sigma$, where $\Sigma$ is a compact manifold with smooth boundaries $\partial\Sigma$. By using an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-23 H. -O. Kreiss , O. Reula , O. Sarbach , J. Winicour

A well-posed initial-boundary value problem is formulated for the model problem of the vector wave equation subject to the divergence-free constraint. Existence, uniqueness and stability of the solution is proved by reduction to a system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-23 Alexander M. Alekseenko

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations in the maximal gauge, or more generally, in a gauge where the mean curvature of a timelike foliation is fixed near the boundary. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

A new representation of the Einstein evolution equations is presented that is first order, linearly degenerate, and symmetric hyperbolic. This new system uses the generalized harmonic method to specify the coordinates, and exponentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Lee Lindblom , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Robert Owen , Oliver Rinne

We provide a framework to build periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere (or hyperbolic plane), the infinite two-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature. Starting from the common case of periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 François Sausset , Gilles Tarjus

Absorbing boundary conditions are presented for three-dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger-type of equations as a means to reduce the cost of the quantum-mechanical calculations. The boundary condition is first derived from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Xiaojie Wu , Xiaotao Li

The boundary effects on the Bose-Einstein condensation of a Bose gas with a nonvanishing chemical potential on an ultra-static space-time are studied. High temperature regime, which is the relevant regime for the relativistic gas, is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Akant , E. Ertugrul , Y. Gul , O. T. Turgut

We give a general family of electromagnetic boundary conditions applicable to arbitrary space--time interfaces between electromagnetic media, which include the known space--only and time--only boundary conditions as special cases. These…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 Jonathan Gratus , Simon A. R. Horsley , Martin W. McCall

The constraint-preserving approach, which aim is to provide consistent boundary conditions for Numerical Relativity simulations, is discussed in parallel with other recent developments. The case of the Z4 system is considered, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Bona , T. Ledvinka , C. Palenzuela-Luque , M. Zacek

We study the boundary control of solutions of the Helmholtz and Maxwell equations to enforce local non-zero constraints. These constraints may represent the local absence of nodal or critical points, or that certain functionals depending on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Giovanni S. Alberti

We give a well posed initial value formulation of the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura form of Einstein's equations with gauge conditions given by a Bona-Masso like slicing condition for the lapse and a frozen shift. This is achieved by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-09 Horst Beyer , Olivier Sarbach

In the Bondi-Sachs gauge, the Einstein equations with a cosmological constant coupled to a scalar field in spherical symmetry are cast into a first order strongly hyperbolic formulation in which the lapse and shift are the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-16 Li-Ming Cao , Liang-Bi Wu , Yu-Sen Zhou

A set of energy-momentum constraint-preserving boundary conditions is proposed for the first-order Z4 case. The stability of a simple numerical implementation is tested in the linear regime (robust stability test), both with the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Bona , C. Bona-Casas