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Initial Data for Numerical Relativity
Gabriel Nagy
Department of Mathematics
UC San Diego
Abstract
We consider the conformal decomposition of Einstein's constraint
equations introduced by Lichnerowicz and York, on a compact manifold with
boundary. We show that there exists a solution to the coupled Hamiltonian
and momentum constraint equations when the derivative of the mean
extrinsic curvature is small enough, and assuming that the Ricci scalar of
the background metric is bounded, though it can change sign on the
manifold. The solutions are in general not uniquely determined by the
source functions and boundary data. The proof technique is based on
finding barriers for the Hamiltonian constraint equation which are
independent of the solutions of the momentum constraint equation, and then
using standard fixed-point methods for increasing operators in Banach
spaces. This work generalizes a previous work by Isenberg and Moncrief on
closed manifolds.
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