How to smooth a crinkled map of space-time: Uhlenbeck compactness for L^ connections and optimal regularity for general relativistic shock waves by the Reintjes-Temple equations

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2020.0177MaRDI QIDQ5161071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Moritz Reintjes, Blake Temple

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06795

zbMATH Keywords

differential equationsgeneral relativitygeometryLorentzian geometryoptimal metric regularityregularity singularitiesrelativityshock wavesUhlenbeck compactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We present authors' new theory of the RT-equations, nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations which determine the coordinate transformations which smooth connections $Gamma$ to optimal regularity, one derivative smoother than the Riemann curvature tensor $mRiem(Gamma)$. As one application we extend Uhlenbeck compactness from Riemannian to Lorentzian geometry; and as another application we establish that regularity singularities at GR shock waves can always be removed by coordinate transformation. This is based on establishing a general multi-dimensional existence theory for the RT-equations, by application of elliptic regularity theory in $L^p$ spaces. The theory and results announced in this paper apply to arbitrary $L^{i}nfty$ connections on the tangent bundle $TmathcalM$ of arbitrary manifolds $mathcalM$, including Lorentzian manifolds of General Relativity.

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