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On the Construction of Time-Symmetric Black Hole Initial Data

Domenico Giulini

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9804055

Abstract

We review in a pedagogical fashion the 3+1-split which serves to put Einstein's equations into the form of a dynamical system with constraints. We then discuss the constraint equations under the simplifying assumption of time-symmetry. Multi-Black-Hole data are presented and more explicitly described in the case of two holes. The effect of different topologies is emphasized.

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