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We construct non-trivial vacuum space-times with a global Scri. The construction proceeds by proving extension results across compact boundaries for initial data sets, adapting the gluing arguments of Corvino and Schoen. Another application…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Erwann Delay

We construct approximate analytical solutions to the constraint equations of general relativity for binary black holes of arbitrary mass ratio in quasicircular orbit. We adopt the puncture method to solve the constraint equations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth A. Dennison , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Harald P. Pfeiffer

In this paper we develop a new approach to the gluing problem in General Relativity, that is, the problem of matching two solutions of the Einstein equations along a spacelike or characteristic (null) hypersurface. In contrast to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Stefan Czimek , Igor Rodnianski

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

A relativistic model for the emission of gravitational waves from an initially unperturbed Schwarzschild black hole, or spherical collapsing configuration, is completely integrated. The model consists basically of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Lima , I. Damião Soares

The computation of the gravitational radiation emitted by a particle falling into a Schwarzschild black hole is a classic problem studied already in the 1970s. Here we present a detailed numerical analysis of the case of radial infall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Ermis Mitsou

In the present work, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing in the spacetime of a holonomy corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Analytical expressions for the light deflection angle are obtained in both the weak field limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória

A numerical procedure is described for the maximization of the energy diffusion due to the backscattering of the gravitational radiation. The obtained maxima are solutions dominated by low frequency waves. They give rise to robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Karkowski , Edward Malec , Zdobyslaw Swierczynski

We compute families of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations of the type of Brill waves, but with slow fall-off towards spatial infinity. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for physical data and numerically construct some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , James Wheeler

We compute the gravitational-wave signal generated by the radial infall of a stellar-mass black hole into a thin-shell Schwarzschild traversable wormhole. Modeling the black hole as a test particle, we derive analytic expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Mohammad Nosherwan Malik , James B. Dent , William E. Gabella , Thomas W. Kephart

We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosef Zlochower , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

A novel approach to binary black hole gravitational wave analysis improves the process of inferring black hole properties by selecting the most accurate waveform model for each region of the parameter space, resulting in tighter constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Zack Carson

We consider general relativistic Cauchy data representing two nonspinning, equal-mass black holes boosted toward each other. When the black holes are close enough to each other and their momentum is sufficiently high, an encompassing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Andrew M. Abrahams , Gregory B. Cook

We derive a geometrical version of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations, which allows us to study gravitational perturbations on an arbitrary spherically symmetric slicing of a Schwarzschild black hole. We explain how to obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We present a generalisation of the Brill-type proof of positivity of mass for axisymmetric initial data to initial data sets with black hole boundaries. The argument leads to a strictly positive lower bound for the mass of simply connected,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Piotr T. Chruściel , Luc Nguyen

The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole is described, using analytic solutions in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure phantom radiation (pure radiation with negative energy density) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward , Hiroko Koyama

An exact and analytical solution, in four-dimensional general relativity coupled with Maxwell electromagnetism, is built by means of a Lie point symmetry of the Ernst equations, the Harrison transformation. The new spacetime describes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Marco Astorino

We present a new pseudospectral code, bamps, for numerical relativity written with the evolution of collapsing gravitational waves in mind. We employ the first order generalized harmonic gauge formulation. The relevant theory is reviewed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 David Hilditch , Andreas Weyhausen , Bernd Bruegmann

We compute the propagation and scattering of linear gravitational waves off a Schwarzschild black hole using a numerical code which solves a generalization of the Zerilli equation to a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Rezzolla , A. M. Abrahams , T. W. Baumgarte , G. B. Cook , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , S. A. Teukolsky

We study the dispersive properties for the wave equation in the Kerr space-time with small angular momentum. The main result of this paper is to establish Strichartz estimates for solutions of the aforementioned equation. As an application,…

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