STRONGLY HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY

DOI10.1142/S0219891604000111MaRDI QIDQ5315529zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. Reula

Publication date 8 September 2005

Published in Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0403007

zbMATH Keywords

causalityconstraintspseudo-differentialHolmgren

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

Abstract: We discuss several topics related to the notion of strong hyperbolicity which are of interest in general relativity. After introducing the concept and showing its relevance we provide some covariant definitions of strong hyperbolicity. We then prove that is a system is strongly hyperbolic with respect to a given hypersurface, then it is also strongly hyperbolic with respect to any near by one. We then study for how much these hypersurfaces can be deformed and discuss then causality, namely what is the maximal propagation speed in any given direction. To show that the concept is needed in the area of general relativity we discuss two results for which the theory of symmetric hyperbolic systems shows to be insufficient. The first deals with the hyperbolicity analysis of systems which are second order in space derivatives, they include certain versions of the ADM and the BSSN families of equations. The second result deals with systems having constraints. The question posed is which hyperbolicity properties, if any, are inherited from the original evolution system by the subsidiary system satisfied by the constraint quantities. The answer is that, subject to some condition on the constraints, if the evolution system is strongly hyperbolic then the subsidiary system is also strongly hyperbolic and the causality properties of both are identical.

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