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This paper initiates a series of works dedicated to the rigorous study of the precise structure of gravitational radiation near infinity. We begin with a brief review of an argument due to Christodoulou [1] stating that Penrose's proposal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Lionor M. A. Kehrberger

We study the early-time behavior of isotropic and homogeneous solutions in vacuum as well as radiation-filled cosmological models in the full, effective, four dimensional gravity theory with higher derivatives. We use asymptotic methods to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Georgios Kolionis

We simplify the gravitational equations which apply in accelerating spacetimes and are consistent with the cosmological principle. Solutions to these equations should be tantamount to all order re-summations of the perturbative leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 S. P. Miao , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

Einstein's theory of general relativity is written in terms of the variables obtained from a conformal--traceless decomposition of the spatial metric and extrinsic curvature. The determinant of the conformal metric is not restricted, so the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Brown

We give new proofs of general relativistic initial data gluing results on unit-scale annuli based on explicit solution operators for the linearized constraint equation around the flat case with prescribed support properties. These results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Yuchen Mao , Sung-Jin Oh , Zhongkai Tao

In this series of lectures we give an introduction to the concept of asymptotic symmetry analysis with a focus on asymptotically flat spacetimes in 2+1 dimensions. We explain general ideas of quantizing gauge theories and then apply these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-13 Max Riegler , Céline Zwikel

We consider two cases of the asymptotically flat scalar-flat Yamabe problem on a non-compact manifold with boundary, in dimension $n\geq3$. First, following arguments of Cantor and Brill in the compact case, we show that given an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Stephen McCormick

The kinematical phase space of classical gravitational field is flat (affine) and unbounded. Because of this, field variables may tend to infinity leading to appearance of singularities, which plague Einstein's theory of gravity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Danilo Artigas Guimarey , Jakub Mielczarek , Carlo Rovelli

A new local, covariant ``counter-term'' is used to construct a variational principle for asymptotically flat spacetimes in any spacetime dimension $ d \ge 4$. The new counter-term makes direct contact with more familiar background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert B. Mann , Donald Marolf

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

We consider 4-dimensional space-times which are asymptotically flat at spatial infinity and show that, in the first order framework, action principle for general relativity is well-defined \emph{without the need of infinite counter terms.}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abhay Ashtekar , Jonathan Engle , David Sloan

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive study of asymptotically flat spacetime in even dimensions $d\geq 4$. We analyze the most general boundary condition and asymptotic symmetry compatible with Penrose's definition of asymptotic null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Laurent Freidel , Aldo Riello

It is argued that the symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in 4 dimensions should be taken as the semi-direct sum of supertranslations with infinitesimal local conformal transformations and not, as usually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Glenn Barnich , Cedric Troessaert

When working with asymptotically hyperbolic initial data sets for general relativity it is convenient to assume certain simplifying properties. We prove that the subset of initial data sets with such properties is dense in the set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Mattias Dahl , Anna Sakovich

We present an alternative pathway in the application of the variation improvement of ordinary perturbation theory exposed in [1] which can preserve the internal symmetries of a model by means of a time compactification.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Bellet , P. Garcia , A. Neveu

We consider Lorentzian General Relativity in a cavity with a timelike boundary, with conformal boundary conditions and also a generalization of these boundary conditions. We focus on the linearized gravitational dynamics about the static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Xiaoyi Liu , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos , Toby Wiseman

This is the third paper in a series describing a numerical implementation of the conformal Einstein equation. This paper describes a scheme to calculate (three) dimensional data for the conformal field equations from a set of free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

We study conformal transformations in the most general parity-preserving models of the New General Relativity type. Then we apply them to analysis of cosmological perturbations in the (simplest) spatially flat cosmologies. Strong coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Alexey Golovnev , A. N. Semenova , V. P. Vandeev

We consider the quantization of a general spatially homogeneous space-time belonging to an arbitrary but fixed Class A Bianchi type. Exploiting the information furnished by the quantum version of the momentum constraints, we use as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Christodoulakis , E. Korfiatis , E. C. Vagenas

It is well-known that considerations of symmetry lead to the definition of a host of conserved quantities (energy, linear momentum, center of mass, etc.) for an asymptotically flat initial data set, and a great deal of progress in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Levi Lopes de Lima