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Stability Within $T^2$-Symmetric Expanding Spacetimes

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We prove a nonpolarised analogue of the asymptotic characterization of T2T^2-symmetric Einstein Flow solutions completed recently by LeFloch and Smulevici. In this work, we impose a condition weaker than polarisation and so our result applies to a larger class. We obtain similar rates of decay for the normalized energy and associated quantities for this class. We describe numerical simulations which indicate that there is a locally attractive set for T2T^2-symmetric solutions not covered by our main theorem. This local attractor is distinct from the local attractor in our main theorem, thereby indicating that the polarised asymptotics are unstable.

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@article{arxiv.1812.07766,
  title  = {Stability Within $T^2$-Symmetric Expanding Spacetimes},
  author = {Beverly K. Berger and James Isenberg and Adam Layne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07766},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 5 figures

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