Niall ‘O Murchadha is an Editorial Board Member for Classical and Quantum Gravity and a Professor of Physics at University College Cork, Ireland

This is a very nice article which deserves to be studied carefully by anyone interested in finding solutions to the constraints. In particular, they show how to construct a solution which is far from maximal, and, at the same time, is asymptotically flat. Readers should be aware that the first theorem, Theorem 1.1, covers a much broader range of data than the second theorem, Theorem 1.2. Further, they should be aware that the titles of the theorems ‘Far-from-CMC’ (Theorem 1.1), and ‘Near-CMC’ (Theorem 1.2), especially the second one, are not particularly illuminating.

There are conditions which are surprising. No restriction is placed on Τ² (other than the AF condition), but we are asked Continue reading →