The Evolution Problem in General Relativity Paperback / softback
by Sergiu Klainerman, Francesco Nicolo
Part of the Progress in Mathematical Physics series
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The main goal of this work is to revisit the proof of the global stability of Minkowski space by D.
Christodoulou and S. Klainerman, [Ch-KI]. We provide a new self-contained proof of the main part of that result, which concerns the full solution of the radiation problem in vacuum, for arbitrary asymptotically flat initial data sets.
This can also be interpreted as a proof of the global stability of the external region of Schwarzschild spacetime.
The proof, which is a significant modification of the arguments in [Ch-Kl], is based on a double null foliation of spacetime instead of the mixed null-maximal foliation used in [Ch-Kl].
This approach is more naturally adapted to the radiation features of the Einstein equations and leads to important technical simplifications.
In the first chapter we review some basic notions of differential geometry that are sys tematically used in all the remaining chapters.
We then introduce the Einstein equations and the initial data sets and discuss some of the basic features of the initial value problem in general relativity.
We shall review, without proofs, well-established results concerning local and global existence and uniqueness and formulate our main result.
The second chapter provides the technical motivation for the proof of our main theorem.
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- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:16/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781461274087
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 400 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:16/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781461274087
