English

Is the Bianchi identity always hyperbolic?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

We consider n+1n+1 dimensional smooth Riemannian and Lorentzian spaces satisfying Einstein's equations. The base manifold is assumed to be smoothly foliated by a one-parameter family of hypersurfaces. In both cases---likewise it is usually done in the Lorentzian case---Einstein's equations may be split into `Hamiltonian' and `momentum' constraints and a `reduced' set of field equations. It is shown that regardless whether the primary space is Riemannian or Lorentzian whenever the foliating hypersurfaces are Riemannian the `Hamiltonian' and `momentum' type expressions are subject to a subsidiary first order symmetric hyperbolic system. Since this subsidiary system is linear and homogeneous in the `Hamiltonian' and `momentum' type expressions the hyperbolicity of the system implies that in both cases the solutions to the `reduced' set of field equations are also solutions to the full set of equations provided that the constraints hold on one of the hypersurfaces foliating the base manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1016,
  title  = {Is the Bianchi identity always hyperbolic?},
  author = {István Rácz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1016},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, the published version

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