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Seminar on

Mathematical General Relativity

Organizers:

 Philippe G. LeFloch (Paris)

Jérémie Szeftel (Paris) 

Ghani Zeghib (Lyon)

ANR Project

“Mathematical General Relativity. Analysis and geometry of spacetimes with low regularity”

Wednesday June 25, 2014

Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Lecture room 1525-321

 


14h Jan Sbierski (Cambridge, UK) A Zorn-free proof of the existence of a maximal Cauchy development for the Einstein equations

Abstract. In 1969, Choquet-Bruhat and Geroch showed that there exists a unique maximal Cauchy development of given initial data for the Einstein equations. Their proof, however, has the unsatisfactory feature that it relies crucially on the axiom of choice in the form of Zorn’s lemma. In particular, their proof ensures the existence of the maximal development without actually constructing it. In this talk, we present a proof of the existence of a maximal Cauchy development that avoids the use of Zorn’s lemma and, moreover, provides an explicit construction of the maximal development.

15h15 Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton)  Remarks on the stability of the Kerr solution in axial symmetry