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Lorentzian Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity

Analysis of PDEs 2017-01-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We prove a local well-posedness theorem for the (n+1)-dimensional Einstein equations in Lorentzian signature, with initial data (g~,K)(\tilde g, K) whose asymptotic geometry at infinity is similar to that anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, and compatible boundary data g^\hat g prescribed at the time-like conformal boundary of space-time. More precisely, we consider an n-dimensional asymptotically hyperbolic Riemannian manifold (M,g~)(M,\tilde g) such that the conformally rescaled metric x2g~x^2 \tilde g (with xx a boundary defining function) extends to the closure Mˉ\bar M of MM as a metric of class Cn1C^{n-1} which is also polyhomogeneous of class CpC^{p} on Mˉ\bar M. Likewise we assume that the conformally rescaled symmetric (0,2)-tensor x2Kx^{2}K extends to the closure as a tensor field of class Cn1C^{n-1} which is polyhomogeneous of class Cp1C^{p-1}. We assume that the initial data (g~,K)(\tilde g, K) satisfy the Einstein constraint equations and also that the boundary datum is of class CpC^p on M×(T0,T0)\partial M\times (-T_0,T_0) and satisfies a set of natural compatibility conditions with the initial data. We then prove that there exists an integer rnr_n, depending only on the dimension n, such that if p2q+rnp \geq 2q+r_n, with qq a positive integer, then there is T>0T>0, depending only on the norms of the initial and boundary data, such that the Einstein equations have a unique (up to a diffeomorphism) solution gg on (T,T)×M(-T,T)\times M with the above initial and boundary data, which is such that x2gx^2g is of class Cn1C^{n-1} and polyhomogeneous of class CqC^q. Furthermore, if x2g~x^2\tilde g and x2Kx^2K are polyhomogeneous of class CC^\infty and g^\hat g is in CC^\infty, then x2gx^2g is polyhomogeneous of class CC^\infty.

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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

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