Construction of Cauchy data of vacuum Einstein field equations evolving to black holes

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2015.181.2.6MaRDI QIDQ2255294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. B. Li, Pin Yu

Publication date 9 February 2015

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3164

zbMATH Keywords

black holesEinstein constraints equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein equations (35Q76) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We show the existence of complete, asymptotically flat Cauchy initial data for the vacuum Einstein field equations, free of trapped surfaces, whose future development must admit a trapped surface. Moreover, the datum is exactly a constant time slice in Minkowski space-time inside and exactly a constant time slice in Kerr space-time outside. The proof makes use of the full strength of Christodoulou's work on the dynamical formation of black holes and Corvino-Schoen's work on the constructions of initial data set.

Review text

The authors construct Cauchy initial data for the Einstein equations free of trapped surfaces that upon time development lead to the formation of trapped surfaces. The initial data is such that the interior of a ball is a constant time slice of Minkowski space time and the exterior is a constant time slice of the Kerr metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. In between are two concentric shells one filled with a constant time slice of the Schwarzschild space time and the other with \textit{D. Christodoulou}'s short pulse ansatz [The formation of black holes in general relativity. Zürich: European Mathematical Society (EMS) (2009; Zbl 1197.83004)]. The regions are patched with Corvino and Schoen's gluing [\textit{J. Corvino} and \textit{R. M. Schoen}, J. Differ. Geom. 73, No. 2, 185--217 (2006; Zbl 1122.58016)].

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