The conformal Killing spinor initial data equations (Q2159374)

This paper considers the conformal vacuum Einstein equations on a globally hyperbolic four-dimensional manifold of signature \((1,3)\). The main result of this paper (Th.~3, p.~18) is that given a ``conformal Killing spinor initial data set'' (as defined p.~16) in some open set \(\mathcal U\) of a spacelike hypersurface, that satisfies either one of conditions (i) or (ii) of Lemma 3 (p.~18), then it may be continued into a solution of the conformal Einstein equations in some four-dimensional open set included in the domain of dependence of \(\mathcal U\), and this solution possesses a Killing spinor. The authors state that the condition that the initial hypersurface be spacelike may be relaxed to some extent (p.~3).