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      Brill-Lindquist-Riemann sums and their limits

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          This article commences a study of convergence of discretized point-object configurations, which we call Brill-Lindquist-Riemann sums, towards a charged dust continuum from the perspective of relativistic initial data. We are motivated by the interpretation of Brill-Lindquist-Riemann sums as collections of relatively isolated astrophysical bodies such as stars and galaxies in the universe, and the interpretation of the dust continuum as the universe itself. Our work begins by establishing the existence and the uniqueness of horizons/minimal surfaces of Brill-Lindquist metrics in the vicinity of the point-sources ("stars"). We then study the geometries of the regions exterior to said minimal surfaces, and discuss their Gromov-Hausdorff and intrinsic flat limit. An interesting and purely geometric byproduct of our work are examples in which the scalar curvature jumps upon taking Gromov-Hausdorff and /or intrinsic flat limits.

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          19 March 2021
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          2103.11036
          002233f5-2716-4cf2-9a9b-fbe017748a3e

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          83C05, 53C21
          math.DG gr-qc

          General relativity & Quantum cosmology,Geometry & Topology
          General relativity & Quantum cosmology, Geometry & Topology

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