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On the radius of injectivity of null hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

The paper is concerned with regularity properties of boundaries of causal pasts of points in a 3+1-dimensional Einstein-vacuum spacetime. In a Lorentzian manifold such boundaries play crucial role in propagation of linear and nonlinear waves. We prove a uniform lower bound on the radius of injectivity of these null boundaries in terms of the Riemann curvature flux along them and some additional quantities arising specifically in a problem of a large data breakdown criterion in General Relativity

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@article{arxiv.math/0603010,
  title  = {On the radius of injectivity of null hypersurfaces},
  author = {S. Klainerman and I. Rodnianski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603010},
  year   = {2007}
}