The Cauchy problem on a characteristic cone for the Einstein equations in arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00023-011-0076-5MaRDI QIDQ533622zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Y. Choquet-Bruhat, José M. Martín-García, Piotr T. Chrúsciel

Publication date 4 May 2011

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4467

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) 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)

Abstract: We derive explicit formulae for a set of constraints for the Einstein equations on a null hypersurface, in arbitrary dimensions. We solve these constraints and show that they provide necessary and sufficient conditions so that a spacetime solution of the Cauchy problem on a characteristic cone for the hyperbolic system of the reduced Einstein equations in wave-map gauge also satisfies the full Einstein equations. We prove a geometric uniqueness theorem for this Cauchy problem in the vacuum case.

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