Free data at spacelike \mathscr{I} and characterization of Kerr-de Sitter in all dimensions

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S10052-021-09704-6arXiv2105.06881MaRDI QIDQ6367659FDOQ6367659

Authors: Marc Mars, Carlos Peón-Nieto 

Publication date: 14 May 2021

Abstract: We study the free data in the Fefferman-Graham expansion of asymptotically Einstein metrics with non-zero cosmological constant. We prove that if $mathscrI$ is conformally flat, the rescaled Weyl tensor at $mathscrI$ agrees up to a constant with the free data at $mathscrI$ , namely the traceless part of the $n$-th order coefficient of the expansion. In the non-conformally flat case, the rescaled Weyl tensor is generically divergent at $mathscrI$ but one can still extract the free data in terms of the difference of the Weyl tensors of suitably constructed metrics, in full generality when the spacetime dimension $D$ is even and provided the so-called obstruction tensor at $mathscrI$ is identically zero when $D$ is odd. These results provide a geometric definition of the data, particularly relevant for the asymptotic Cauchy problem of even dimensional Einstein metrics with positive $Lambda$ and also for the odd dimensional analytic case irrespectively of the sign of $Lambda$. We establish a Killing initial data equation at spacelike $mathscrI$ in all dimension for analytic data. These results are used to find a geometric characterization of the Kerr-de Sitter metrics in all dimensions in terms of its geometric data at null infinity.

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