The characteristic gluing problem and conservation laws for the wave equation on null hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S40818-017-0023-YMaRDI QIDQ1661395zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefanos Aretakis

Publication date 16 August 2018

Published in Annals of PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1365

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawswave equationgluing constructionscharacteristic problemfour-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of "conservation laws" on null hypersurfaces for the wave equation on general four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. Examples of null hypersurfaces exhibiting such conservation laws include the standard null cones of Minkowski spacetime and the degenerate horizons of extremal black holes. Another (limiting) example of such a conservation law is that which gives rise to the well-known Newman-Penrose constants along the null infinity of asymptotically flat spacetimes. The existence of such conservation laws can be viewed as an obstruction to a certain gluing construction for characteristic initial data for the wave equation. We initiate the general study of the latter gluing problem and show that the existence of conservation laws is in fact the only obstruction. Our method relies on a novel elliptic structure associated to a foliation with 2-spheres of a null hypersurface.

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