The characteristic initial value problem for plane symmetric spacetimes with weak regularity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/14/145019MaRDI QIDQ3091683zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Philippe G. LeFloch, John M. Stewart

Publication date 12 September 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2343

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We investigate the existence and the global causal structure of plane symmetric spacetimes with weak regularity when the matter consists of an irrotational perfect fluid with pressure equal to its mass-energy density. Our theory encompasses the class of weakly regular spacetimes whose metric coefficients have square-integrable first-order derivatives and whose curvature must be understood in the sense of distributions. We formulate the characteristic initial value problem with data posed on two null hypersurfaces intersecting along a two-plane. Relying on Newman-Penrose's formalism and expressing our weak regularity conditions in terms of the Newman-Penrose scalars, we arrive at a fully geometrical formulation in which, along each initial hypersurface, two scalar fields describing the incoming radiation must be prescribed. To analyze the future boundary of such a spacetime and identify its global causal structure, we introduce a gauge that reduces the Einstein equations to a coupled system of wave equations and ordinary differential equations for well-chosen unknowns. We prove that, within the weak regularity class under consideration and for generic initial data, a true spacetime singularity forms in finite proper time. Our formulation is robust enough so that propagating discontinuities in the curvature or in the matter variables do not prevent us from constructing a spacetime whose curvature generically blows-up on the future boundary. Earlier work on the problem studied here was restricted to sufficiently regular and vacuum spacetimes.

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