101 research outputs found
Boundary conditions for coupled quasilinear wave equations with application to isolated systems
We consider the initial-boundary value problem for systems of quasilinear
wave equations on domains of the form , where is
a compact manifold with smooth boundaries . By using an
appropriate reduction to a first order symmetric hyperbolic system with maximal
dissipative boundary conditions, well posedness of such problems is established
for a large class of boundary conditions on . We show that our
class of boundary conditions is sufficiently general to allow for a well posed
formulation for different wave problems in the presence of constraints and
artificial, nonreflecting boundaries, including Maxwell's equations in the
Lorentz gauge and Einstein's gravitational equations in harmonic coordinates.
Our results should also be useful for obtaining stable finite-difference
discretizations for such problems.Comment: 22 pages, no figure
Well-posed initial-boundary value problem for the harmonic Einstein equations using energy estimates
In recent work, we used pseudo-differential theory to establish conditions
that the initial-boundary value problem for second order systems of wave
equations be strongly well-posed in a generalized sense. The applications
included the harmonic version of the Einstein equations. Here we show that
these results can also be obtained via standard energy estimates, thus
establishing strong well-posedness of the harmonic Einstein problem in the
classical sense.Comment: More explanatory material and title, as will appear in the published
article in Classical and Quantum Gravit
The Initial-Boundary Value Problem in General Relativity
In this article we summarize what is known about the initial-boundary value
problem for general relativity and discuss present problems related to it.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to a special volume for Mario
Castagnino's seventy fifth birthda
On the linear stability of solitons and hairy black holes with a negative cosmological constant: the odd-parity sector
Using a recently developed perturbation formalism based on curvature
quantities, we investigate the linear stability of black holes and solitons
with Yang-Mills hair and a negative cosmological constant. We show that those
solutions which have no linear instabilities under odd- and even- parity
spherically symmetric perturbations remain stable under odd-parity, linear,
non-spherically symmetric perturbations.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figur
Critical bubbles and implications for critical black strings
We demonstrate the existence of gravitational critical phenomena in higher
dimensional electrovac bubble spacetimes. To this end, we study linear
fluctuations about families of static, homogeneous spherically symmetric bubble
spacetimes in Kaluza-Klein theories coupled to a Maxwell field. We prove that
these solutions are linearly unstable and posses a unique unstable mode with a
growth rate that is universal in the sense that it is independent of the family
considered. Furthermore, by a double analytical continuation this mode can be
seen to correspond to marginally stable stationary modes of perturbed black
strings whose periods are integer multiples of the Gregory-Laflamme critical
length. This allow us to rederive recent results about the behavior of the
critical mass for large dimensions and to generalize them to the charged black
string case.Comment: A reference to unpublished work for the case q=2, by J. Hovdebo adde
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