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Causal Geometry of Einstein-Vacuum Spacetimes with Finite Curvature Flux

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

One of the central difficulties of settling the L2L^2-bounded curvature conjecture for the Einstein -Vacuum equations is to be able to control the causal structure of spacetimes with such limited regularity. In this paper we show how to circumvent this difficulty by showing that the geometry of null hypersurfaces of Enstein-Vacuum spacetimes can be controlled in terms of initial data and the total curvature flux through the hypersurface.

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@article{arxiv.math/0308123,
  title  = {Causal Geometry of Einstein-Vacuum Spacetimes with Finite Curvature Flux},
  author = {Sergiu Klainerman and Igor Rodnianski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0308123},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

The previous version has been corrected for minor errors and exposition