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Improved breakdown criterion for Einstein vacuum equations in CMC gauge

Analysis of PDEs 2010-04-20 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let \M=t[t0,t)Σt\M_*=\cup_{t\in [t_0, t_*)} \Sigma_t be a part of vacuum globally hyperbolic space-time (\bM,\bg)(\bM, \bg), foliated by constant mean curvature hypersurfaces Σt\Sigma_t with t0<t<0t_0<t_*<0. We show that the foliation can be extended beyond tt_* if the second fundamental form kk and the lapse function nn satisfy t0t(kL(Σt)+\nablognL(Σt))dt<. \int_{t_0}^{t_*}(\|k\|_{L^\infty(\Sigma_t)}+\|\nab \log n\|_{L^\infty(\Sigma_t)}) dt <\infty. This improves the existing breakdown criteria for Einstein vacuum equations.

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@article{arxiv.1004.2938,
  title  = {Improved breakdown criterion for Einstein vacuum equations in CMC gauge},
  author = {Qian Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2938},
  year   = {2010}
}
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