Spinorial wave equations and stability of the Milne spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/18/185021zbMATH Open1327.83190arXiv1407.3317OpenAlexW1541780404MaRDI QIDQ3454697FDOQ3454697

Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon, Edgar Gasperín

Publication date: 26 November 2015

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The spinorial version of the conformal vacuum Einstein field equations are used to construct a system of quasilinear wave equations for the various conformal fields. As a part of the analysis we also show how to construct a subsidiary system of wave equations for the zero quantities associated to the various conformal field equations. This subsidiary system is used, in turn, to show that under suitable assumptions on the initial data a solution to the wave equations for the conformal fields implies a solution to the actual conformal Einstein field equations. The use of spinors allows for a more unified deduction of the required wave equations and the analysis of the subsidiary equations than similar approaches based on the metric conformal field equations. As an application of our construction we study the non-linear stability of the Milne Universe. It is shown that sufficiently small perturbations of initial hyperboloidal data for the Milne Universe gives rise to a solution to the Einstein field equations which exist towards the future and has an asymptotic structure similar to that of the Milne Universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3317

zbMATH Keywords

global existencewave equationsspinorsconformal methodsMilne universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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• Conformal wave equations for the Einstein-tracefree matter system
• The conformal Killing spinor initial data equations
• THE MILNE SPACETIME AND THE HADRONIC RINDLER HORIZON

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