The Taylor expansion at past time-like infinity

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1803-1MaRDI QIDQ376567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Helmut Friedrich

Publication date 5 November 2013

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5626

zbMATH Keywords

Taylor expansionconformal vacuum field equationsinitial datapast time-like infinity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We study the initial value problem for the conformal field equations with data given on a cone ${calN}_p$ with vertex $p$ so that in a suitable conformal extension the point $p$ will represent past time-like infinity $i^{-}$, the set ${calN}_{p}setminusp$ will represent past null infinity ${calJ}^{-}$, and the freely prescribed (suitably smooth) data will acquire the meaning of the incoming {it radiation field} for the prospective vacuum space-time. It is shown that: (i) On some coordinate neighbourhood of $p$ there exist smooth fields which satisfy the conformal vacuum field equations and induce the given data at all orders at $p$. The Taylor coefficients of these fields at $p$ are uniquely determined by the free data. (ii) On ${calN}_p$ there exists a unique set of fields which induce the given free data and satisfy the transport equations and the inner constraints induced on ${calN}_p$ by the conformal field equations. These fields and the fields which are obtained by restricting the functions considered in (i) to ${calN}_p$ coincide at all orders at $p$.

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