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Einstein spaces as attractors for the Einstein flow

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-08-20 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we prove a global existence theorem, in the direction of cosmological expansion, for sufficiently small perturbations of a family of n+1n+1-dimensional, n3n \geq 3, spatially compact spacetimes which generalizes the k=1k=-1 Friedmann--Robertson--Walker vacuum spacetime. Our results demonstrate causal geodesic completeness of the perturbed spacetimes, in the expanding direction, and show that the scale-free geometry converges towards an element in the moduli space of Einstein geometries, with a rate of decay depending on the stability properties of the Einstein geometry.

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@article{arxiv.0908.0784,
  title  = {Einstein spaces as attractors for the Einstein flow},
  author = {Lars Andersson and Vincent Moncrief},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0784},
  year   = {2009}
}

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50 pages

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