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Unique continuation from infinity in asympotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes II: Non-static boundaries

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-29 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We generalize our unique continuation results recently established for a class of linear and nonlinear wave equations gϕ+σϕ=G(ϕ,ϕ)\Box_g \phi + \sigma \phi = \mathcal{G} ( \phi, \partial \phi ) on asymptotically anti-de Sitter (aAdS) spacetimes to aAdS spacetimes admitting non-static boundary metrics. The new Carleman estimates established in this setting constitute an essential ingredient in proving unique continuation results for the full nonlinear Einstein equations, which will be addressed in forthcoming papers. Key to the proof is a new geometrically adapted construction of foliations of pseudoconvex hypersurfaces near the conformal boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1608.07521,
  title  = {Unique continuation from infinity in asympotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes II: Non-static boundaries},
  author = {Gustav Holzegel and Arick Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07521},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

45 pages. Newest version incorporated changes from referee comments and fixed minor typos