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Characterization of (asymptotically) Kerr-de Sitter-like spacetimes at null infinity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-12-20 v2

Abstract

We investigate solutions (M,g)(\mathcal{M}, g) to Einstein's vacuum field equations with positive cosmological constant Λ\Lambda which admit a smooth past null infinity J\mathcal{J}^- \`a la Penrose and a Killing vector field whose associated Mars-Simon tensor (MST) vanishes. The main purpose of this work is to provide a characterization of these spacetimes in terms of their Cauchy data on J\mathcal{J}^-. Along the way, we also study spacetimes for which the MST does not vanish. In that case there is an ambiguity in its definition which is captured by a scalar function QQ. We analyze properties of the MST for different choices of QQ. In doing so, we are led to a definition of "asymptotically Kerr-de Sitter-like spacetimes", which we also characterize in terms of their asymptotic data on J\mathcal{J}^-.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.05839,
  title  = {Characterization of (asymptotically) Kerr-de Sitter-like spacetimes at null infinity},
  author = {Marc Mars and Tim-Torben Paetz and José M. M. Senovilla and Walter Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05839},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

49 pages. v2: Revised version with some changes with respect to the published paper in order to amend a mistake in the statements of theorems 4 and 6 in arXiv:1307.5018v2 (corrected in v3). The validity of all results remains unaltered