Far-from-constant mean curvature solutions of Einstein's constraint equations with positive Yamabe metrics

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.100.161101zbMATH Open1228.83015arXiv0802.1031WikidataQ51876999 ScholiaQ51876999MaRDI QIDQ3107692FDOQ3107692

Authors: Gantumur Tsogtgerel, Michael Holst, Gabriel Nagy 

Publication date: 26 December 2011

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we develop some new existence results for the Einstein constraint equations using the Lichnerowicz-York conformal rescaling method. The mean extrinsic curvature is taken to be an arbitrary smooth function without restrictions on the size of its spatial derivatives, so that it can be arbitrarily far from constant. The rescaled background metric belongs to the positive Yamabe class, and the freely specifiable part of the data given by the traceless-transverse part of the rescaled extrinsic curvature and the matter fields are taken to be sufficiently small, with the matter energy density not identically zero. Using topological fixed-point arguments and global barrier constructions, we then establish existence of solutions to the constraints. Two recent advances in the analysis of the Einstein constraint equations make this result possible: A new type of topological fixed-point argument without smallness conditions on spatial derivatives of the mean extrinsic curvature, and a new construction of global super-solutions for the Hamiltonian constraint that is similarly free of such conditions on the mean extrinsic curvature. For clarity, we present our results only for strong solutions on closed manifolds. However, our results also hold for weak solutions and for other cases such as compact manifolds with boundary; these generalizations will appear elsewhere. The existence results presented here for the Einstein constraints are apparently the first such results that do not require smallness conditions on spatial derivatives of the mean extrinsic curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1031

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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