On the well-posedness of the vacuum Einstein's equations

DOI10.1007/S00028-011-0104-4MaRDI QIDQ657042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lavi Karp

Publication date 13 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2918

zbMATH Keywords

energy estimatesfirst order hyperbolic systemsvacuum Einstein's equationsweighted fractional Sobolev spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Einstein equations (35Q76) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: The Cauchy problem of the vacuum Einstein's equations aims to find a semi-metric $$ of a spacetime with vanishing Ricci curvature $$ and prescribed initial data. Under the harmonic gauge condition, the equations $$ are transferred into a system of quasi-linear wave equations which are called the reduced Einstein equations. The initial data for Einstein's equations are a proper Riemannian metric $h_{ab}$ and a second fundamental form $K_{ab}$. A necessary condition for the reduced Einstein equation to satisfy the vacuum equations is that the initial data satisfy Einstein constraint equations. Hence the data $(h_{ab},K_{ab})$ cannot serve as initial data for the reduced Einstein equations. Previous results in the case of asymptotically flat spacetimes provide a solution to the constraint equations in one type of Sobolev spaces, while initial data for the evolution equations belong to a different type of Sobolev spaces. The goal of our work is to resolve this incompatibility and to show that under the harmonic gauge the vacuum Einstein equations are well-posed in one type of Sobolev spaces.

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