The spacelike-characteristic Cauchy problem of general relativity in low regularity

DOI10.1007/S40818-022-00122-9MaRDI QIDQ2680307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Czimek, Olivier Graf

Publication date 28 December 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07355

zbMATH Keywords

canonical foliationEinstein vacuum equationslow regularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: In this paper we study the spacelike-characteristic Cauchy problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We prove that given initial data on a maximal compact spacelike hypersurface $SigmasimeqoverlineB(0,1)subsetmathbb{R}^3$ and the outgoing null hypersurface $mathcalH$ emanating from $partialSigma$, the time of existence of a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations is controlled by low regularity bounds on the initial data at the level of curvature in $L^2$. The proof uses the bounded $L^2$ curvature theorem by Klainerman, Szeftel and Rodnianski, the extension procedure for the constraint equations by Czimek, Cheeger-Gromov theory in low regularity developed by Czimek, the canonical foliation on null hypersurfaces in low regularity by Czimek and Graf, and global elliptic estimates for spacelike maximal hypersurfaces.

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