Conformal parameterizations of slices of flat Kasner spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S00023-014-0386-5zbMATH Open1330.83006arXiv1404.7242OpenAlexW2003637592MaRDI QIDQ896508FDOQ896508

Authors: David J. Maxwell 

Publication date: 9 December 2015

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Kasner metrics are among the simplest solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations, and we use them here to examine the conformal method of finding solutions of the Einstein constraint equations. After describing the conformal method's construction of constant mean curvature (CMC) slices of Kasner spacetimes, we turn our attention to non-CMC slices of the smaller family of flat Kasner spacetimes. In this restricted setting we obtain a full description of the construction of certain $U^{n-1}$ symmetric slices, even in the far-from-CMC regime. Among the conformal data sets generating these slices we find that most data sets construct a single flat Kasner spacetime, but that there are also far-from-CMC data sets that construct one-parameter families of slices. Although these non-CMC families are analogues of well-known CMC one-parameter families, they differ in important ways. Most significantly, unlike the CMC case, the condition signaling the appearance of these non-CMC families is not naturally detected from the conformal data set itself. In light of this difficulty, we propose modifications of the conformal method that involve a conformally transforming mean curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7242

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal parameterizationsconstant mean curvature (CMC) slicesKasner spacetimesnon-CMC familiesvacuum Einstein equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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