Local well-posedness in Lovelock gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/2/022001MaRDI QIDQ5178117zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven Willison

Publication date 13 March 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6656

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemLovelock gravitypartial differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: It has long been known that Lovelock gravity, being of Cauchy-Kowalevskaya type, admits a well defined initial value problem for analytic data. However, this does not address the physically important issues of continuous dependence of the solution on the data and the domain of dependence property. In this note we fill this gap in our understanding of the (local) dynamics of the theory. We show that, by a known mathematical trick, the fully nonlinear harmonic-gauge-reduced Lovelock field equations can be made equivalent to a quasilinear PDE system. Due to this equivalence, an analysis of the principal symbol, as has appeared in recent works by other authors, is sufficient to decide the issue of local well-posedness of perturbations about a given background.

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