Stability of Minkowski space and polyhomogeneity of the metric

DOI10.1007/S40818-020-0077-0zbMATH Open1462.35389arXiv1711.00195OpenAlexW3098916629MaRDI QIDQ2658697FDOQ2658697

Authors: Peter Hintz, András Vasy 

Publication date: 23 March 2021

Published in: Annals of PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the nonlinear stability of the $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime as a solution of the Einstein vacuum equation. Similarly to our previous work on the stability of cosmological black holes, we construct the solution of the nonlinear initial value problem using an iteration scheme in which we solve a linearized equation globally at each step; we use a generalized harmonic gauge and implement constraint damping to fix the geometry of null infinity. The linear analysis is largely based on energy and vector field methods originating in work by Klainerman. The weak null condition of Lindblad and Rodnianski arises naturally as a nilpotent coupling of certain metric components in a linear model operator at null infinity. Upon compactifying $mathbb{R}^4$ to a manifold with corners, with boundary hypersurfaces corresponding to spacelike, null, and timelike infinity, we show, using the framework of Melrose's b-analysis, that polyhomogeneous initial data produce a polyhomogeneous spacetime metric. Finally, we relate the Bondi mass to a logarithmic term in the expansion of the metric at null infinity and prove the Bondi mass loss formula.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00195

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceEinstein vacuum equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Einstein equations (35Q76) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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