Fuchsian analysis of S2 times S1 and S3 Gowdy spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/17/301zbMATH Open1028.83014arXivgr-qc/0109011OpenAlexW2951999158MaRDI QIDQ4789677FDOQ4789677

Authors: Fredrik Ståhl 

Publication date: 19 January 2004

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

Abstract: The Gowdy spacetimes are vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations with two commuting Killing vectors having compact spacelike orbits with T^3, S^2xS^1 or S^3 topology. In the case of T^3 topology, Kichenassamy and Rendall have found a family of singular solutions which are asymptotically velocity dominated by construction. In the case when the velocity is between zero and one, the solutions depend on the maximal number of free functions. We consider the similar case with S^2xS^1 or S^3 topology, where the main complication is the presence of symmetry axes. We use Fuchsian techniques to show the existence of singular solutions similar to the T^3 case. We first solve the analytic case and then generalise to the smooth case by approximating smooth data with a sequence of analytic data. However, for the metric to be smooth at the axes, the velocity must be 1 or 3 there, which is outside the range where the constructed solutions depend on the full number of free functions. A plausible explanation is that in general a spiky feature may develop at the axis, a situation which is unsuitable for a direct treatment by Fuchsian methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0109011

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zbMATH Keywords

Gowdy spacetimescosmological singularitiesKilling vectorsKasner spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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