Global existence for the Einstein vacuum equations in wave coordinates

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1281-6zbMATH Open1081.83003arXivmath/0312479OpenAlexW2055247681MaRDI QIDQ1781834FDOQ1781834

Authors: Hans Lindblad, Igor Rodnianski 

Publication date: 8 June 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic (wave) coordinate gauge for the set of restricted data coinciding with Schwartzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity. The result contradicts previous beliefs that wave coordinates are "unstable in the large" and provides an alternative approach to the stability problem originally solved (for unrestricted data, in a different gauge and with a precise description of the asymptotic behavior at null infinity) by D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman. Using the wave coordinate gauge we recast the Einstein equations as a system of quasilinear wave equations and, in absence of the classical null condition, establish a small data global existence result. In our previous work we introduced the notion of a eak nul condition and showed that the Einstein equations in wave coordinates satisfy this condition. The result of this paper relies on this observation and combines it with the vector field method based on the symmetries of the standard Minkowski space. In a forthcoming paper we will address the question of stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in wave coordinates for all "small" asymptotically flat data and the case of the Einstein equations coupled to a scalar field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312479

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's equationsharmonic coordinatesstability of Minkowski space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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