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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

Specifying boundary conditions continues to be a challenge in numerical relativity in order to obtain a long time convergent numerical simulation of Einstein's equations in domains with artificial boundaries. In this paper, we address this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas N. Arnold , Nicolae Tarfulea

We discuss the initial-boundary value problem of General Relativity. Previous considerations for a toy model problem in electrodynamics motivate the introduction of a variational principle for the lapse with several attractive properties.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Nagy , Olivier Sarbach

We provide a formulation of the initial boundary value problem for Friedrich's extended conformal Einstein field equations in which boundary data is prescribed on a timelike hypersurface located at a finite position in the spacetime. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Chris Stevens , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We prove the well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein equations with sole boundary condition the requirement that the timelike boundary is totally geodesic. This provides the first well-posedness result for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

We show how the use of the normal projection of the Einstein tensor as a set of boundary conditions relates to the propagation of the constraints, for two representations of the Einstein equations with vanishing shift vector: the ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simonetta Frittelli , Roberto Gomez

A strongly well-posed initial boundary value problem based upon constraint-preserving boundary conditions of the Sommerfeld type has been established for the harmonic formulation of the vacuum Einstein's equations. These Sommerfeld…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-07 Jeffrey Winicour

We focus on the initial boundary value problem for a general scalar balance law in one space dimension. Under rather general assumptions on the flux and source functions, we prove the well-posedness of this problem and the stability of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Elena Rossi

In the Cauchy problem of general relativity one considers initial data that satisfies certain constraints. The evolution equations guarantee that the evolved variables will satisfy the constraints at later instants of time. This is only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

Various methods of treating outer boundaries in numerical relativity are compared using a simple test problem: a Schwarzschild black hole with an outgoing gravitational wave perturbation. Numerical solutions computed using different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oliver Rinne , Lee Lindblom , Mark A. Scheel

We study the initial value problem in Einstein-Cartan theory which includes torsion and, therefore, a non-symmetric connection on the spacetime manifold. Generalizing the path of a classical theorem by Choquet-Bruhat and York for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Paulo Luz , Filipe C. Mena

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

In this paper we study a numerical implementation for the initial boundary value formulation for the generalized conformal field equations. We propose a formulation which is well suited for the study of the long-time behaviour of perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-18 Florian Beyer , Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens , Ben Whale

The principle part of Einstein equations in the harmonic gauge consists of a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. A new formulation of constraint-preserving boundary conditions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 M. C. Babiuc , H-O. Kreiss , Jeffrey Winicour

We prove the global stability of the Minkowski space viewed as the trivial solution of the Einstein-Vlasov system. To estimate the Vlasov field, we use the vector field and modified vector field techniques developed in [FJS15; FJS17]. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 David Fajman , Jérémie Joudioux , Jacques Smulevici

We establish Lipschitz stability for both the potential and the initial conditions from a single boundary measurement in the context of a hyperbolic boundary initial value problem. In our setting, the initial conditions are allowed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Shiqi Ma

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

New boundary conditions are constructed and tested numerically for a general first-order form of the Einstein evolution system. These conditions prevent constraint violations from entering the computational domain through timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Lawrence E. Kidder , Lee Lindblom , Mark A. Scheel , Luisa T. Buchman , Harald P. Pfeiffer

This article, written to appear as a chapter in "The Springer Handbook of Spacetime", is a review of the initial value problem for Einstein's gravitational field theory in general relativity. Designed to be accessible to graduate students…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 James Isenberg

We give a short proof of local well-posedness for the initial boundary value problem in general relativity with sole boundary condition the requirement that the boundary is umbilic. This includes as a special case the totally geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-20 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici