Category Archive

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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 Sept. 17, 2014

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

Lecture room 15-25-321

14h Arick Shao (Imperial College) Unique continuation from infinity for linear waves

Abstract. We prove various unique continuation results from infinity for linear waves on asymptotically flat space-times. Assuming vanishing of the solution to infinite order on suitable parts of future and past null infinities, we derive that the solution must vanish in an open set in the interior. The parts of infinity where we must impose a vanishing condition depend strongly on the background geometry; in particular, for backgrounds with positive mass (such as Schwarzschild or Kerr), the required assumptions are much weaker than in Minkowski spacetime. These results rely on a new family of geometrically robust Carleman estimates near null cones and on an adaptation of the standard conformal inversion of Minkowski spacetime. Also, the results are nearly optimal in many respects. This is joint work with Spyros Alexakis and Volker Schlue.

15h30 Claude Warnick (Warwick)  Dynamics in anti-de Sitter spacetimes

Abstract. When solving Einstein’s equations with negative cosmological constant, the natural setting is that of an initial-boundary value problem. Data is specified on the timelike conformal boundary as well as on some initial spacelike hypersurface. Questions of local well-posedness and global stability are sensitive to the choices of boundary conditions. I will present recent work exploring the effects of non-trivial boundary data for the asymptotically AdS initial-boundary value problem, including a recent result in collaboration with Holzegel. I will also outline some interesting open problems in the area.

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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

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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”

May 28, 2014

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

Lecture room  1525-321

14h Erwann Delay (Avignon) A study of some curvature operators near the Euclidian metric

Abstract. We will show that some curvature operators of Ricci (or Einstein) type are locally invertible, in some weighted Sobolev spaces on Rn, near the euclidian metric. In the smooth case, we then deduce that the image of some Riemann-Christoffel type operators are smooth submanifolds in the neighborhood of the Euclidian metric.

15h30 Mahir Hadzic (London) Stability problem in the dust-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant

Abstract. The dust-Einstein system models the evolution of a spacetime containing a pressureless fluid, i.e. dust. We will show nonlinear stability of the well-known Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) family of solutions to the dust-Einstein system with positive cosmological constant. FLRW solutions represent initially a quiet fluid evolving in a spacetime undergoing accelerated expansion. We work in a harmonic-type coordinate system, inspired by prior works of Rodnianski and Speck on Euler-Einstein system, and Ringstrom’s work on the Einstein-scalar-field system. The main new mathematical difficulty is the additional loss of one degree of differentiability of the dust matter. To deal with this degeneracy, we commute the equations with a well-chosen differential operator and derive a family of elliptic estimates to complement the high-order energy estimates. This is joint work with Jared Speck.

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Seminar on

Mathematical General Relativity

Organizers:

 Philippe G. LeFloch (Paris)

Jérémie Szeftel (Paris) 

Ghani Zeghib (Lyon)

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ANR Project

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

February 12, 2014

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

Lecture room  1525-103

14h  Florian Beyer  (Dunedin)  Graceful exit from inflation for minimally coupled Bianchi A scalar field models

Abstract. We consider the dynamics of Bianchi A scalar field models which undergo inflation. The main question is under which conditions does inflation come to an end and is succeeded by a decelerated epoch. This so-called ‘graceful exit’ from inflation is an important ingredient in the standard model of cosmology, but is, at this stage, only understood for restricted classes of solutions. We present new results obtained by a combination of analytical and numerical techniques.

15h30  Cécile Huneau (ENS, Paris)  Vacuum constraint equations for asymptotically flat space-times with a translational Killing field

Abstract. In the presence of a space-like translational Killing field, vacuum Einstein equations in 3+1 dimensions reduces to 2+1 Einstein equations with a scalar field. Minkowski space-time is a trivial solution of vacuum Einstein equation with a translational Killing field. A natural question is therefore the nonlinear stability of Minkowski solution in this setting. A first step in addressing this problem is the study of the constraint equations. The main difficulty in that case is due to the delicate inversion of the Laplacian. In particular, we have to work in the non constant mean curvature setting, which enforces us to consider the intricate coupling of the Einstein constraint equations.