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Asymptotically simple spacetime manifolds
Lerner, Daniel E. Porter, J. R.
Lerner, Daniel E.
Porter, J. R.
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Abstract
Asymptotic simplicity is shown to be k‐stable (k≥3) at any Minkowski metric on R4 in both the Whitney fine Ck topology and a coarser topology (in which the Ck twice‐convariant symmetric tensors form a Banach manifold whose connected components consist of tensor field asymptotic to one another at null infinity). This result, together with a sequential method for solving the field equations previously proposed by the authors, allows a fairly straightforward proof that a well‐known result in the linearized theory holds in the full nonlinear theory as well: There are no nontrivial (i.e., non‐Minkowskian) asymptotically simple vacuum metrics on R4 whose conformal curvature tensors result from prescribing zero initial data on past null infinity.
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1666825.
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1974-02-01
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American Institute of Physics
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Tensor methods, Conformal field theory, Manifolds, Nonlinear field theories, Topology
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Lerner, David E. & Porter, J. R. "Asymptotically simple space-time manifolds." J. Math. Phys. 15, 1416 (1974). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1666825.