On characteristic initial-value and mixed problems

Details On characteristic initial-value and mixed problems On characteristic initial-value and mixed problems

Apr 1977

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General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp.259-301

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Existence and uniqueness are proved for certain initial-value problems for hyperbolic systems of second-order differential equations, each having the same principal partg ab δ a δ b (whereg ab is indefinite). The initial data are given on two intersecting hypersurfaces H1 andH 2 one of which-sayH 1-is a characteristic surface. The other surface,H 2, is permitted to be spacelike, timelike, or characteristic. For Einstein's vacuum field equations we restrict ourselves to anH 2 that is characteristic. Unlike the Cauchy problem, the data have to be necessarily of a considerably higher differentiability class (Sobolev classW 2m-1) than the solution (Sobolev classW m ). On the other hand, in the mixed problem (where one of the surfaces is spacelike) corner conditions have to be fulfilled. The occurrence of constraint equations for Einstein's metric field and for harmonic coordinates can be prevented by solving certain ordinary differential “propagation” equations.

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