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A sharp counterexample to local existence of low regularity solutions to Einstein's equations in wave coordinates

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-19 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We are concerned with how regular initial data have to be to ensure local existence for Einstein's equations in wave coordinates. Klainerman-Rodnianski and Smith-Tataru showed that there in general is local existence for data in Sobolev spaces H^s with regularity s>2. We give an example of data in Sobolev spaces with regularity s=2 for which there is no local solution in this space.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05167,
  title  = {A sharp counterexample to local existence of low regularity solutions to Einstein's equations in wave coordinates},
  author = {Boris Ettinger and Hans Lindblad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05167},
  year   = {2016}
}
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