A flow approach to Bartnik's static metric extension conjecture in axisymmetry

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2019.V15.N2.A1zbMATH Open1437.83011arXiv1904.11040WikidataQ123274489 ScholiaQ123274489MaRDI QIDQ2287356FDOQ2287356

Authors: Carla Cederbaum, Oliver Rinne, Markus Strehlau 

Publication date: 20 January 2020

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate Bartnik's static metric extension conjecture under the additional assumption of axisymmetry of both the given Bartnik data and the desired static extensions. To do so, we suggest a geometric flow approach, coupled to the Weyl-Papapetrou formalism for axisymmetric static solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations. The elliptic Weyl-Papapetrou system becomes a free boundary value problem in our approach. We study this new flow and the coupled flow--free boundary value problem numerically and find axisymmetric static extensions for axisymmetric Bartnik data in many situations, including near round spheres in spatial Schwarzschild of positive mass.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11040

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundary value problemgeneral relativitygeometric flowaxisymmetryWeyl-Papapetrou coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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