  Strongly coupled gravitational systems describe Einstein gravity and matter
in the limit that Newton's constant G is assumed to be very large. The
nonlinear evolution of these systems may be solved analytically in the
classical and semiclassical limits by employing a Green function analysis.
Using functional methods in a Hamilton-Jacobi setting, one may compute the
generating functional (`the phase of the wavefunctional') which satisfies both
the energy constraint and the momentum constraint. Previous results are
extended to encompass the imposition of an arbitrary initial hypersurface. A
Lagrange multiplier in the generating functional restricts the initial fields,
and also allows one to formulate the energy constraint on the initial
hypersurface. Classical evolution follows as a result of minimizing the
generating functional with respect to the initial fields. Examples are given
describing Einstein gravity interacting with either a dust field and/or a
scalar field. Green functions are explicitly determined for (1) gravity, dust,
a scalar field and a cosmological constant and (2) gravity and a scalar field
interacting with an exponential potential. This formalism is useful in solving
problems of cosmology and of gravitational collapse.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;Astrophysics;High Energy Physics - Theory