Future geodesic completeness of some spatially homogeneous solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/15/155019MaRDI QIDQ3586309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arne Gödeke, Alan D. Rendall

Publication date 6 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1851

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's equationsfour-dimensional modelsgeodesicsspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: It is known that all spatially homogeneous solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in four dimensions which exist for an infinite proper time towards the future are future geodesically complete. This paper investigates whether the analogous statement holds in higher dimensions. A positive answer to this question is obtained for a large class of models which can be studied with the help of Kaluza-Klein reduction to solutions of the Einstein-scalar field equations in four dimensions. The proof of this result makes use of a criterion for geodesic completeness which is applicable to more general spatially homogeneous models.

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