scholarly journals The Cauchy Problem for the Einstein Equations

Author(s):  
Helmut Friedrich ◽  
Alan Rendall

A method is described by means of which the characteristic initial value problem can be reduced to the Cauchy problem and examples are given of how it can be used in practice. As an application it is shown that the characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein equations in vacuum or with perfect fluid source is well posed when data are given on two transversely intersecting null hypersurfaces. A new discussion is given of the freely specifiable data for this problem.


Author(s):  
Andrzej Krasiński ◽  
George F. R. Ellis ◽  
Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

2017 ◽  
Vol 2019 (19) ◽  
pp. 5859-5913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Miao ◽  
Long Pei ◽  
Pin Yu

Abstract This article studies the Cauchy problem for systems of semi-linear wave equations on $\mathbb{R}^{3+1}$ with nonlinear terms satisfying the null conditions. We construct future global-in-time classical solutions with arbitrarily large initial energy. The choice of the large Cauchy initial data is inspired by Christodoulou's characteristic initial data in his work [2] on formation of black holes. The main innovation of the current work is that we discovered a relaxed energy ansatz which allows us to prove decay-in-time-estimate. Therefore, the new estimates can also be applied in studying the Cauchy problem for Einstein equations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ◽  
Piotr T. Chruściel ◽  
José M. Martín-García

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
V. Litovchenko

The well-posedness of the Cauchy problem, mentioned in title, is studied. The main result means that the solution of this problem is usual C∞ - function on the space argument, if the initial function is a real functional on the conjugate space to the space, containing the fundamental solution of the corresponding problem. The basic tool for the proof is the functional analysis technique.


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