An extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in general relativity

DOI10.4310/JDG/1299766683zbMATH Open1213.83025arXiv0904.0620OpenAlexW2950939728WikidataQ115171013 ScholiaQ115171013MaRDI QIDQ531753FDOQ531753

Authors: Lydia Bieri 

Publication date: 20 April 2011

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we sketch the proof of the extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in General Relativity done explicitly in previous work by the present author. We discuss solutions of the Einstein vacuum (EV) equations. We solve the Cauchy problem for more general, asymptotically flat initial data than in the pioneering work `The Global Nonlinear Stability of the Minkowski Space' of D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman or than in any other work. Moreover, we describe precisely the asymptotic behaviour. Our relaxed assumptions on the initial data yield a spacetime curvature which is not bounded in $L^{infty}(M)$. As a major result, we encounter in our work borderline cases, which we discuss in this paper as well. The fact that certain of our estimates are borderline in view of decay indicates that the conditions in our main theorem are sharp in so far as the assumptions on the decay at infinity on the initial data are concerned. Thus, the borderline cases are a consequence of our relaxed assumptions on the data. They are not present in the other works, as all of them place stronger assumptions on their data. We work with an invariant formulation of the EV equations. Our main proof is based on a bootstrap argument. To close the argument, we have to show that the spacetime curvature and the corresponding geometrical quantities have the required decay. In order to do so, the Einstein equations are decomposed with respect to specific foliations of the spacetime. This result generalizes the work `The Global Nonlinear Stability of the Minkowski Space' of D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0620

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's vacuum field equationinitial value problem, bootstrapsolutions with prescribed global propertiesspacetimes without singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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