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

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2019.V15.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2287356zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Carla Cederbaum, Oliver Rinne, Markus Strehlau

Publication date 20 January 2020

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

axisymmetryfree boundary value problemgeneral relativitygeometric flowWeyl-Papapetrou coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

In this article, the authors developed a new approach to construct static metric extensions as they arise in \textit{R. Bartnik}'s conjecture [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 39, 661--693 (1986; Zbl 0598.53045)]. They suggested 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 this approach. The article is well written and will have impact to the readers.

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