On weak solutions to the geodesic equation in the presence of curvature bounds

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2024.02.014MaRDI QIDQ6124491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Moritz Reintjes, Blake Temple

Publication date 27 March 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04868

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Qxx) Global differential geometry (53Cxx) General relativity (83Cxx)

Abstract: We show that taking account of bounded curvature reduces the threshold regularity of connection coefficients required for existence and uniqueness of solutions to the geodesic equation, to $L_e^{p}xtloc$, one derivative below the regularity $W_e^{1,p}xtloc$ required if one does not take account of curvature, ($L_{loc}^p$ for existence, $W_{loc}^{1,p}$ for uniqueness). Our argument is based on authors' theory of the RT-equations for regularizing connections to optimal regularity by coordinate transformation. The incoming regularity is too low to formulate a weak version of the geodesic equation based on the standard method of multiplying by smooth test functions and integrating by parts, so alternatively, we define weak solutions by coordinate transformation and we give an explicit procedure for mollifying the original connection such that the correct weak solution is indeed a limit of smooth solutions of the mollified equations in the original coordinates. This is an example where limits under suitable mollification are more fundamental than a weak formulation, indicative of more complicated PDE's in which the standard weak formulation of the equations does not adequately rule out unphysical solutions. Our results apply to general second order ODE's in which the lack of regularity can be isolated in the connection coefficients. The results apply to General Relativity.

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