Refined gluing for vacuum Einstein constraint equations (Q476419): Difference between revisions

This article deals with the existence of families of initial data sets for the Cauchy problem of the Einstein vacuum equations. It extends the previous work [\textit{L. Mazzieri}, ``Generalized gluing for Einstein constraint equations'', Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 34, No. 4, 453--473 (2009; \url{doi:10.1007/s00526-008-0191-4})] to the non-compact case with asymptotically Euclidean or asymptotically hyperbolic ends. The authors aim at showing that, from a pair \((M_i,g_i,\Pi_i)\), \(i=1,2\) of given such initial data sets solutions to the vacuum constraint equations (``vacuum initial data sets'' for short), a new vacuum initial data set exists on the manifold constructed as a connected sum \(M_1 \#_K M_2\) of \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) along a given compact submanifold \(K\). Their proof is based on the conformal method to solve the constraints, assuming that a generic condition holds (non-existence of any non-trivial conformal Killing vector field). Moreover, constancy of the mean curvature (the trace of \(\Pi_i\) w.r.t. \(g_i\)) is assumed in order to decouple the constraint equations. In addition, they show that this construction can be localized: under another generic condition, the obtained vacuum initial data on the connected sum can be perturbed to new ones which coincide respectively with \((g_i,\Pi_i)\), \(i=1,2\) outside a compact neighborhood of the gluing region.