Construction of N-Body Initial Data Sets in General Relativity

Author(s)
Piotr T. Chrusciel, Justin Corvino, James Isenberg
Abstract

Given a collection of N solutions of the (3 + 1) Einstein constraint equations which are asymptotically Euclidean and vacuum near infinity, we show how to construct a new solution of the constraints which is itself asymptotically Euclidean, and which contains specified sub-regions of each of the N given solutions. This generalizes earlier work which handled the time-symmetric case, thus providing a construction of large classes of initial data for the many body problem in general relativity.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
Lafayette College, University of Oregon
Journal
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume
304
Pages
637-647
No. of pages
11
ISSN
0010-3616
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-011-1244-7
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103036 Theoretical physics, 103028 Theory of relativity, 103019 Mathematical physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4f54fd82-5ee7-4cd9-860c-0f2fbd616492