Vacuum initial data on \mathbb{S}^3 from Killing vectors

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DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB4210zbMATH Open1478.83235arXiv1901.09724OpenAlexW2913001660MaRDI QIDQ5160004FDOQ5160004

Piotr Bizoń, Walter Simon, Robert Beig

Publication date: 28 October 2021

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

Abstract: We construct compact initial data of constant mean curvature widetildeK for Einstein's 4d vacuum equations with widehatLambda=Lambda(widetildeK2/3) positive, where Lambda is the cosmological constant, via the conformal method. To construct a transverse, trace-free (TT) momentum tensor explicitly we first observe that, if the seed manifold has two orthogonal Killing vectors, their symmetrized tensor product is a natural TT candidate. Without the orthogonality requirement, but on locally conformally flat seed manifolds there is a generalized construction for the momentum which also involves the derivatives of the Killing fields found in work by Beig and Krammer [2]. We consider in particular the round three sphere and classify the TT tensors resulting from all possible pairs of its six Killing vectors, focusing on the commuting case where the seed data are mathbbU(1)imesmathbbU(1) -symmetric. As to solving the Lichnerowicz equation, we discuss in particular potential "symmetry breaking" by which we mean that solutions have less symmetries than the equation itself; we compare with the case of the "round donut" of topology mathbbS2imesmathbbS. In the absence of symmetry breaking, the Lichnerowicz equation for a mathbbU(1)imesmathbbU(1) symmetric momentum on mathbbS3 reduces to an ODE. We analyze distinguished families of solutions and the resulting data via a combination of analytical and numerical techniques. Finally we investigate marginally trapped surfaces of toroidal topology in our data.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09724




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