Global existence of spherically symmetric solutions to the coupled Einstein and nonlinear Klein-Gordon system (Q2769508)

The author of this interesting paper proves the global unique existence of classical solutions to the Einstein equations coupled with the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations for small initial data under spherical symmetry. It is considered the space- and time-oriented Lorentzian manifold diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^4\), on which the group \(\text{SO}(3)\) acts as an isometry, and the group orbits are the metric spacelike 2-spheres. Decay estimates of the solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are obtained. For this purpose, the author makes use of the reduction of the considered system to a single first-order integro-differential equation, and use the contraction mapping theorem in the appropriate function spaces.