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Global characteristic problem for Einstein vacuum equations with small initial data: (I) The initial data constraints

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show how to prescribe the initial data of a characteristic problem satisfying the costraints, the smallness, the regularity and the asymptotic decay suitable to prove a global existence result. In this paper, the first of two, we show in detail the construction of the initial data and give a sketch of the existence result. This proof, which mimicks the analogous one for the non characteristic problem in [Kl-Ni], will be the content of a subsequent paper.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0409028,
  title  = {Global characteristic problem for Einstein vacuum equations with small initial data: (I) The initial data constraints},
  author = {Giulio Caciotta and Francesco Nicolò},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0409028},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

77 pages, no figures; corrected misprints and minor errors, to appear on Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (JHDE)