Cheeger-Gromov theory and applications to general relativity

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Authors Michael T. Anderson

Publication date 14 January 2005

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208079

zbMATH Keywords

Cheeger-Gromov theoryfuture asymptoticsstatic and stationary space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Review text

The author presents a survey on some aspects of the convergence and degeneration of Riemannian metrics on a given manifold and some recent applications of this theory to general relativity. The ideas related to the convergence/degeneration of the metrics are based on the works of Gromov and Cheeger. The author deals with diffeomorphisms and their actions on a given metric \(g\) on a manifold \(M\), the scaling, the blowing down, the compactness/convergence, the collapse, the cusp formation. The convergence/compactness of a family of metrics is studied in some more detail by using the Ricci tensor field and the Ricci curvature. The collapse/formation of cusps is studied in the case of \(3\)-manifolds. Next there are obtained some applications to static and stationary space-times and one discusses some open problems (\(1\)-st and \(2\)-nd level problem, regularity problem, sandwich problem). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1048.83001].

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