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A Gluing Construction Regarding Point Particles in General Relativity

Differential Geometry 2010-05-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We develop a gluing construction which adds scaled and truncated asymptotically Euclidean solutions of the Einstein constraint equations to compact solutions with potentially non-trivial cosmological constants. The result is a one-parameter family of initial data which has ordinary and scaled "point-particle" limits analogous to those of Gralla and Wald ("A rigorous derivation of gravitational self-force," Class. Quantum Grav. 2008). In particular, we produce examples of initial data which generalize Schwarzschild - de Sitter initial data and gluing theorems of IMP-type.

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@article{arxiv.0908.1781,
  title  = {A Gluing Construction Regarding Point Particles in General Relativity},
  author = {Iva Stavrov Allen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1781},
  year   = {2010}
}
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