Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Since Brill's work of 1959, the conformal factor of finite-amplitude Brill waves, the axisymmetric and time-symmetric vacuum initial data on $\mathbb{R}^3$ that describe pure gravitational radiation, has been obtained only numerically, up to the most recent studies. Here an explicit one-parameter family of such data is constructed: the first explicit real-analytic, non-trivial, asymptotically flat vacuum initial data with trivial topology and a single end. The free metric function is a closed-form combination of elementary functions and a dilogarithm. The data have the toroidal conformal symmetry of Beig and Husa, and a change of variable of Natanzon type reduces every mode equation to the Gauss hypergeometric equation, so that the conformal factor is a series with explicit Gamma-function coefficients. The quantities that have so far required numerical work are thereby obtained exactly. A ground-state identity gives a sharp existence criterion: complete, asymptotically flat data exist precisely for $k
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Koc, Piotr
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7221817614