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We study the local in time well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem (IBVP) for the vacuum Einstein equations in general relativity with geometric boundary conditions. For conformal-mean curvature boundary conditions, consisting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Zhongshan An , Michael T. Anderson

In regards to the initial-boundary value problem of the Einstein equations, we argue that the projection of the Einstein equations along the normal to the boundary yields necessary and appropriate boundary conditions for a wide class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Simonetta Frittelli , Roberto Gomez

We present results from a new technique which allows extraction of gravitational radiation information from a generic three-dimensional numerical relativity code and provides stable outer boundary conditions. In our approach we match the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luciano Rezzolla , Andrew M. Abrahams , Richard A. Matzner , Mark E. Rupright , Stuart L. Shapiro

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 are interested in numerical algorithms for computing the electrical field generated by a charge distribution localized on scale $\ell$ in an infinite heterogeneous medium, in a situation where the medium is only known in a box of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Jianfeng Lu , Felix Otto , Lihan Wang

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 well-posed initial boundary value problem based upon a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Jeffrey Winicour

Several theoretical and astrophysical problems - including gravitational-wave modeling for extreme mass-ratio inspirals - require accurate time-domain solutions of the spin-weight $s=-2$ Teukolsky equation in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Som Dev Bishoyi , Scott E. Field , Stephen R. Lau

Recent work has demonstrated that the infrared effects of harmonic oscillator basis truncations are well approximated by imposing a partial-wave Dirichlet boundary condition at a properly identified radius L. This led to formulas for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 R. J. Furnstahl , S. N. More , T. Papenbrock

A persistent challenge in numerical relativity is the correct specification of boundary conditions. In this work we consider a many parameter family of symmetric hyperbolic initial-boundary value formulations for the linearized Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gioel Calabrese , Olivier Sarbach

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

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

In the 3+1 framework of the Einstein equations for the case of vanishing shift vector and arbitrary lapse, we calculate explicitly the four boundary equations arising from the vanishing of the projection of the Einstein tensor along the…

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

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

We discuss high order absorbing constraint preserving boundary conditions for the Z4c formulation of general relativity coupled to the moving puncture family of gauges. We are primarily concerned with the constraint preservation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Milton Ruiz , David Hilditch , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We obtain an approximate global stationary and axisymmetric solution of Einstein's equations which can be thought as a simple two layers star model: a self-gravitating ball built up by two layers of perfect fluid having different linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-12 Alfred Molina , Eduardo Ruiz

We derive the complete orbit of boundary conditions for supergravity models which is closed under the action of all local symmetries of these models, and which eliminates spurious field equations on the boundary. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. van Nieuwenhuizen , D. V. Vassilevich

Second-order formulations of the 3+1 Einstein equations obtained by eliminating the extrinsic curvature in terms of the time derivative of the metric are examined with the aim of establishing whether they are well posed, in cases of…

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

We consider various mechanisms of modifying the effect of intrinsic curvature in gravity with respect to general relativity. Two primary approaches are studied. First, by considering a Lagrange multiplier or an auxiliary field. Second, by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ido Ben-Dayan , Elena Emtsova

We study boundary regularity for conformally compact Einstein metrics in even dimensions by generalizing the ideas of Michael Anderson. Our method of approach is to view the vanishing of the Ambient Obstruction tensor as an nth order system…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Dylan Helliwell

In the present paper the linearized problem of half-space plasma oscillations in external longitudinal alternating electric field is solved analytically. Specular - accommodative boundary conditions of electron reflection from the plasma…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 N. V. Gritsienko , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov