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An integral breakdown criterion for Einstein vacuum equations in the case of asymptotically flat spacetimes

Mathematical Physics 2011-05-09 v3 math.MP

Abstract

We will give in this paper the proof of an integral breakdown criterion for Einstein vacuum equations. In a recent article of S.Klainerman and I.Rodnianski a new breakdown criterion was proved as a result of a sequence of articles involving new techniques. However, in this article, the authors mentioned that it was likely possible to prove a sharper result involving an integral condition instead of a pointwise one. This paper is concerned with giving the proof of this improvement. Moreover the proof of this breakdown criterion was written in the original article for a foliation of constant mean curvature, we will present it here for a maximal foliation which leads to some difficulties due to the non-compacity of the leaves of such a foliation and the use of weighted Sobolev norms.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4309,
  title  = {An integral breakdown criterion for Einstein vacuum equations in the case of asymptotically flat spacetimes},
  author = {David Parlongue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4309},
  year   = {2011}
}

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