Injectivity radius and optimal regularity of Lorentzian manifolds with bounded curvature

zbMATH Open1191.53052arXiv0812.2671MaRDI QIDQ3400263FDOQ3400263

Authors: Philippe G. LeFloch 

Publication date: 5 February 2010

Abstract: We review recent work on the local geometry and optimal regularity of Lorentzian manifolds with bounded curvature. Our main results provide an estimate of the injectivity radius of an observer, and a local canonical foliations by CMC (Constant Mean Curvature) hypersurfaces, together with spatially harmonic coordinates. In contrast with earlier results based on a global bound for derivatives of the curvature, our method requires only a sup-norm bound on the curvature near the given observer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2671

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zbMATH Keywords

injectivity radiusLorentzian geometryharmonic coordinatesconstant mean curvature foliation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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