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Static Vacuum Spacetimes with $\Lambda<0$ as Attractors of the Ricci-Harmonic Flow

Differential Geometry 2026-04-27 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove dynamical stability and instability theorems for asymptotically hyperbolic static solutions of Einstein's equation with Λ<0\Lambda<0, viewed as self-similar solutions of the Ricci-harmonic flow. More precisely, we show that static metrics are dynamically stable if and only if a positive mass type theorem holds for nearby metrics. Our key tool is a new variant of the expander entropy for the Ricci-harmonic flow.

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@article{arxiv.2604.22585,
  title  = {Static Vacuum Spacetimes with $\Lambda<0$ as Attractors of the Ricci-Harmonic Flow},
  author = {Rasmus Jouttijärvi and Klaus Kroencke and Louis Yudowitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22585},
  year   = {2026}
}

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