Lorentzian Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity
Abstract
We prove a local well-posedness theorem for the (n+1)-dimensional Einstein equations in Lorentzian signature, with initial data whose asymptotic geometry at infinity is similar to that anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, and compatible boundary data prescribed at the time-like conformal boundary of space-time. More precisely, we consider an n-dimensional asymptotically hyperbolic Riemannian manifold such that the conformally rescaled metric (with a boundary defining function) extends to the closure of as a metric of class which is also polyhomogeneous of class on . Likewise we assume that the conformally rescaled symmetric (0,2)-tensor extends to the closure as a tensor field of class which is polyhomogeneous of class . We assume that the initial data satisfy the Einstein constraint equations and also that the boundary datum is of class on and satisfies a set of natural compatibility conditions with the initial data. We then prove that there exists an integer , depending only on the dimension n, such that if , with a positive integer, then there is , depending only on the norms of the initial and boundary data, such that the Einstein equations have a unique (up to a diffeomorphism) solution on with the above initial and boundary data, which is such that is of class and polyhomogeneous of class . Furthermore, if and are polyhomogeneous of class and is in , then is polyhomogeneous of class .
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@article{arxiv.1412.4376,
title = {Lorentzian Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity},
author = {Alberto Enciso and Niky Kamran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4376},
year = {2017}
}
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41 pages