The shear-free condition and constant-mean-curvature hyperboloidal initial data

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115015zbMATH Open1344.83010arXiv1506.06090OpenAlexW1659344458MaRDI QIDQ5741284FDOQ5741284

Authors: P. Allen, John M. Lee, Iva Stavrov Allen, James Isenberg 

Publication date: 22 July 2016

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

Abstract: We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-fluid constraint equations, and make use of the conformal method to construct and parametrize constant-mean-curvature hyperboloidal initial data sets that satisfy the shear-free condition. This condition is known to be necessary in order that a spacetime development admit a regular conformal boundary at future null infinity. We work with initial data sets in a variety of regularity classes, primarily considering those data sets whose geometries are weakly asymptotically hyperbolic, as defined in [arXiv:1506.03399]. These metrics are $C^{1,1}$ conformally compact, but not necessarily $C^2$ conformally compact. In order to ensure that the data sets we construct are indeed shear-free, we make use of the conformally covariant traceless Hessian introduced in [arXiv:1506.03399]. We furthermore construct a class of initial data sets with weakly asymptotically hyerbolic metrics that may be only $C^{0,1}$ conformally compact; these data sets are insufficiently regular to make sense of the shear-free condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06090

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityEinstein constraint equationsshear-freeasymptotically hyperboloidal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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