INITIAL DATA FOR GENERAL-RELATIVITY WITH TOROIDAL CONFORMAL SYMMETRY

A new class of time-symmetric solutions to the initial value constraints of vacuum general relativity is introduced. These data are globally regular, asymptotically flat (with possibly several asymptotic ends), and in general have no isometries, but a U(1)×U(1) group of conformal isometries. After decomposing the Lichnerowicz conformal factor in a double Fourier series on the group orbits, the solutions are given in terms of a countable family of uncoupled ODEs on the orbit space. © 1994 The American Physical Society.