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Generalized Bowen-York Initial Data

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Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology

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A class of vacuum initial-data sets is described which are based on certain expressions for the extrinsic curvature first studied and employed by Bowen and York. These expressions play a role for the momentum constraint of General Relativity which is analogous to the role played by the Coulomb solution for the Gau\-law constraint of electromagnetism.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090, Wien, Austria

    R. Beig

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  1. Research Laboratory for Geometry, Dynamical System and Cosmology Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 83 200, Karlovassi, Greece

    Spiros Cotsakis

  2. DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, CB3 9EW, Cambridge, UK

    Gary W. Gibbons

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Beig, R. (2000). Generalized Bowen-York Initial Data. In: Cotsakis, S., Gibbons, G.W. (eds) Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46671-1_3

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