Local foliations and optimal regularity of Einstein spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2009.04.002zbMATH Open1179.53069arXiv0812.5053OpenAlexW2000544251MaRDI QIDQ1029484FDOQ1029484

Authors: Bing-Long Chen, Philippe G. LeFloch 

Publication date: 10 July 2009

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the local regularity of pointed spacetimes, that is, time-oriented Lorentzian manifolds in which a point and a future-oriented, unit timelike vector (an observer) are selected. Our main result covers the class of Einstein vacuum spacetimes. Under curvature and injectivity bounds only, we establish the existence of a local coordinate chart defined in a ball with definite size in which the metric coefficients have optimal regularity. The proof is based on quantitative estimates, on one hand, for a constant mean curvature (CMC) foliation by spacelike hypersurfaces defined locally near the observer and, on the other hand, for the metric in local coordinates that are spatially harmonic in each CMC slice. The results and techniques in this paper should be useful in the context of general relativity for investigating the long-time behavior of solutions to the Einstein equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.5053

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein field equationsgeneral relativityLorentzian geometryharmonic coordinatesconstant mean curvature foliation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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