Existence and non-existence results for global constant mean curvature foliations

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(96)00203-9zbMATH Open0891.53067arXivgr-qc/9608045MaRDI QIDQ4374255FDOQ4374255

Authors: Alan D. Rendall 

Publication date: 6 July 1998

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main result of this paper is a proof that there are examples of spatially compact solutions of the Einstein-dust equations which only exist for an arbitrarily small amount of CMC time. While this fact is plausible, it is not trivial to prove. It is necessary to obtain a lower bound for the lapse function of a CMC foliation in a suitable class of inhomogeneous spacetimes. This bound, which shows that in these spacetimes the lapse cannot collapse in finite CMC time, may be of independent interest. This fact is contrasted with the positive results previously obtained for other matter models, e.g. collisionless matter or wave maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9608045

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zbMATH Keywords

singularityconstant mean curvaturefoliationcosmological spacetimeCauchy hypersurfacespacelike hypersurfaceweak energy conditioncrushing singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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