Stability in exponential time of Minkowski space-time with a space-like translation symmetry

Huneau, Cécile

Journées équations aux dérivées partielles, (2015), p. 1-12 / Harvested from Numdam

Résumé

In this note, we discuss the nonlinear stability in exponential time of Minkowki space-time with a translation space-like Killing field, proved in [13]. In the presence of such a symmetry, the $3+1$ vacuum Einstein equations reduce to the $2+1$ Einstein equations with a scalar field. We work in generalized wave coordinates. In this gauge Einstein equations can be written as a system of quasilinear quadratic wave equations. The main difficulty in [13] is due to the decay in $\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}$ of free solutions to the wave equation in $2$ dimensions, which is weaker than in $3$ dimensions. As in [21], we have to rely on the particular structure of Einstein equations in wave coordinates. We also have to carefully chose an approximate solution with a non trivial behaviour at space-like infinity to enforce convergence to Minkowski space-time at time-like infinity. This article appears under the same form in the proceedings of the Laurent Schwartz seminar.

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Publié le : 2015-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/jedp.632

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