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

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115015MaRDI QIDQ5741284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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