Half polarized U(1) symmetric vacuum spacetimes with AVTD behavior

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Half polarized \(U(1)\) symmetric vacuum spacetimes with AVTD behavior



Abstract: In a previous work, we used a polarization condition to show that there is a family of U(1) symmetric solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations such that each exhibits AVTD (Asymptotic Velocity Term Dominated) behavior in the neighborhood of its singularity. Here we consider the general case of U(1) bundles and determine a condition, called the half polarization condition, necessary and sufficient in our context, for AVTD behavior near the singularity.


The authors continue previous work on the behavior of cosmological solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations near the singularity [the second author and \textit{V. Moncrief}, Classical Quantum Gravity 19, No. 21, 5361--5386 (2002; Zbl 1025.83008)]. The major difference in the present paper is the manifold structure, which is now assumed to be a \(U(1)\) principal bundle over the base \(\Sigma^2 \times {\mathbb R}\) (with an arbitrary compact 2-manifold \(\Sigma^2\)) rather than \(T^3 \times {\mathbb R}\). In their main result the authors show that a half polarization condition is necessary and sufficient for AVTD (asymptotic velocity term dominated) behavior near the singularity.











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