Global existence for the Einstein vacuum equations in wave coordinates
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Global existence for the Einstein vacuum equations in wave coordinates
zbMATH Open document ID: 1081.83003
author: Hans Lindblad
author: Igor Rodnianski
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 2005-06-08T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312479
review text: In this paper the authors revisit the problem of global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic coordinates. More precisely, for the set of restricted data coinciding with the Schwarzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity, they prove that the harmonic coordinates are stable in the large: the reduced Einstein equations have a global solution \(g\) defining a future causally geodesically complete space-time. The metric \(g\) in wave coordinates \(x\) approaches the Minkowski metric \(m\): sup\(_{x\in \mathbb{R}^3}| g(t,x)-m|\to 0\) as \(t\to\infty\). The paper provides an alternative approach to the problem of global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations originally solved by \textit{D. Christodoulou} and \textit{S. Klainerman} [The global nonlinear stability of the Minkowski space, Princeton Univ. Press (Princeton, NJ) (1993; Zbl 0827.53055)]. Though being less precise about the asymptotic behavior of the solution, this work is focused more on developing a technically relatively simple approach to the proof of stability of Minkowski space in a physically interesting wave coordinate gauge. In order to establish their result, the authors use the crucial fact that the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic coordinates fulfil the weak null condition, a notion introduced by the authors for general quasilinear systems in a previous paper. This observation is combined with the vector field method based on the symmetries of the standard Minkowski space.
reviewed by: Giovanni Giachetta
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35Q75
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J45
zbMATH DE Number: 2174474
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein's equations
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic coordinates
zbMATH Keywords: stability of Minkowski space
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2055247681
arXiv ID: math/0312479
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DOI: 10.1007/S00220-004-1281-6
description: scientific article