On the C k-embedding of Lorentzian manifolds in Ricci-flat spaces

DOI10.1063/1.5017492MaRDI QIDQ4565445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rodrigo Avalos, F. Dahia, C. Romero

Publication date 12 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05911

zbMATH Keywords

embedding theoremLorntzian manifoldsRicci-flat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Embedding (54C25) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the problem of non-analytic embeddings of Lorentzian manifolds in Ricci-flat semi-Riemannian spaces. In order to do this, we first review some relevant results in the area, and then motivate both the mathematical and physical interest in this problem. We show that any $n$-dimensional compact Lorentzian manifold $(M^n,g)$, with $g$ in the Sobolev space $H_{s+3}$, $s>fracn2$, admits an isometric embedding in an $(2n+2)$-dimensional Ricci-flat semi-Riemannian manifold. The sharpest result available for this type of embeddings, in the general setting, comes as a corollary of Greene's remarkable embedding theorems [R. Greene, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 97, 1 (1970)], which guarantee the embedding of a compact $n$-dimensional semi-Riemannian manifold into an $n(n+5)$-dimensional semi-Euclidean space, thereby guaranteeing the embedding into a Ricci-flat space with the same dimension. The theorem presented here improves this corollary in $n^2+3n-2$ codimensions by replacing the Riemann-flat condition with the Ricci-flat one from the beginning. Finally, we will present a corollary of this theorem, which shows that a compact strip in an $n$-dimensional globally hyperbolic space-time can be embedded in a $(2n+2)$-dimensional Ricci-flat semi-Riemannian manifold.

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