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This paper generalizes two previously known techniques for generating minimally coupled Einstein-scalar field solutions in 4 dimensions; the Buchdahl and Fonarev transformations. By applying this solution generation technique, minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-13 Kjell Tangen

We derive an integral inequality between the mean curvature and the scalar curvature of the boundary of any scalar flat conformal compactifications of Poincar{\'e}-Einstein manifolds. As a first consequence , we obtain a sharp lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Simon Raulot

We derive linear scalar perturbation equations for Einstein-Cartan field equations of Weyssenhoff fluid, as well as for the corresponding perturbations of Bianchi identity and geodesic equations. The equations are given in both conformal…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Davor Palle

It is well-known that solutions to the conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations are unique in the cases of constant mean curvature (CMC) and near constant mean curvature (near-CMC). However, the new far-from-constant mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-10 Michael Holst , Caleb Meier

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

The first step in the building of a spacetime solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations via the initial value formulation is finding a solution of the Einstein constraint equations. We recall the conformal method for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 James Isenberg

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

A new technique is presented for modifying the Einstein evolution equations off the constraint hypersurface. With this approach the evolution equations for the constraints can be specified freely. The equations of motion for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. David Brown , Lisa L. Lowe

In this paper we first use the result in $[12]$ to remove the assumption of the $L^2$ boundedness of Weyl curvature in the gap theorem in $[9]$ and then obtain a gap theorem for a class of conformally compact Einstein manifolds with very…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Gang Li , Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi

The effectiveness of the hyperbolic relaxation method for solving the Einstein constraint equations numerically is studied here on a variety of compact orientable three-manifolds. Convergent numerical solutions are found using this method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Fan Zhang , Lee Lindblom

We present a new scheme for constructing initial data for the Einstein field equations using the conformal thin-sandwich formulation that does not assume conformal flatness or approximate Killing vectors. This includes a method for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-29 William E. East , Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu , Frans Pretorius

In this paper we analyse semi-linear systems of partial differential equations which are motivated by the conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations coupled with realistic physical fields on asymptotically Euclidean (AE)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-18 Rodrigo Avalos , Jorge H. Lira

We investigate static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity non-minimally coupled to a massless real scalar field, both in vacuum and in the presence of fermionic matter. Focusing on a specific quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Roberto D. Alba Q. , Javier Chagoya , Armando A. Roque

The stationary points of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of unit volume metrics on a given closed manifold are known to be precisely the Einstein metrics. One may consider the modified problem of finding stationary points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Justin Corvino , Michael Eichmair , Pengzi Miao

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for an initial data set for the vacuum conformal Einstein field equations to give rise to a spacetime development in possession of a Killing spinor. The fact that the conformal Einstein field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Edgar Gasperin , Jarrod L. Williams

A compact Riemannian manifold is associated with geometric data given by the eigenvalues of various Laplacian operators on the manifold and the triple overlap integrals of the corresponding eigenmodes. This geometric data must satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-19 James Bonifacio , Kurt Hinterbichler

In this article we consider the conformal decomposition of the Einstein constraint equations introduced by Lichnerowicz, Choquet-Bruhat, and York, on asymptotically flat (AF) manifolds. Using the non-CMC fixed-point framework developed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-27 A. Behzadan , M. Holst

In this paper we consider the single patch pseudo-spectral scheme for tensorial and spinorial evolution problems on the 2-sphere presented in [3,4] which is based on the spin-weighted spherical harmonics transform. We apply and extend this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Florian Beyer , Leon Escobar , Jörg Frauendiener

We couple a conformal scalar field in (2+1) dimensions to Einstein gravity with torsion. The field equations are obtained by a variational principle. We could not solve the Einstein and Cartan equations analytically. These equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 H. T. Özçelik , R. Kaya , M. Hortaçsu

Using the implicit function theorem, we prove existence of solutions of the so-called conformally covariant split system on compact 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. They give rise to non-Constant Mean Curvature (non-CMC) vacuum initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-24 Patryk Mach , Yaohua Wang , Naqing Xie