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Smooth local geometric existence and uniqueness for source-free Einstein–Maxwell data
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and Dependent Choice. Let be a smooth oriented three-manifold without boundary, with smooth Riemannian metric , smooth symmetric covariant tensor , and smooth spatial vectors . Fix , , , use signature and , and suppose the four Einstein–Maxwell constraints of Gauss-Codazzi and Maxwell initial constraints hold. In SI convention use length coordinate , dimensionless , in , and , in tesla. Reconstruct the complete initial two-form on by where is the future unit normal symbol and is a positively oriented -orthonormal frame. Then the data have a smooth time-oriented local source-free Einstein–Maxwell development on an open variable-width neighborhood of the entire initial surface. After restriction to a smaller collar, the interior of its intrinsic domain of dependence is a globally hyperbolic neighborhood with Cauchy. Any two developments of this same model and complete data are related near the entire initial surface by a data-fixing, time-orientation-preserving isometry carrying to . There is no uniform positive time width for noncompact and no global-in-time conclusion.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, Dependent Choice, the smooth oriented data and constants in the Statement, and the specified tetrad, field and extrinsic-curvature conventions.
Draft model Electrovacuum tensor Cauchy system fixes , , , and the curvature and orientation/sign conventions. Its item file is listed in batch 6; its status is draft and its precheck is pending; the application remains conditional.
Draft constraint result Gauss-Codazzi and Maxwell initial constraints states, with this and field convention, Its item file is present but listed in batch 6 and has verification precheck pending, so the interface remains conditional.
Draft stress identity Maxwell stress algebra and covariant conservation gives for smooth fields satisfying and . The exact source-free Hodge conversion is with indices raised by . It follows by expanding , using metric-compatibility , and ; the coordinate divergence uses and the vanishing contraction . Hence the source-free equations in [L1] meet both hypotheses with before the unreduced Einstein equation is used. The file exists but is listed in batch 6 and its precheck is pending; this input remains conditional.
Draft harmonic initialization Harmonic initial data relative to a fixed smooth background specifies all initial metric first derivatives, including auxiliary reduction variables, so and the initial reduced state is compatible with the chosen smooth background. Its file exists but is listed in batch 6 and its precheck is pending; this use remains conditional.
Positive symmetric Maxwell field-strength reduction gives the symmetric Maxwell principal block and positive time matrix; Principal part of the reduced Einstein operator and its first-order symmetric hyperbolic reduction gives the metric wave block; Coupled reduced Einstein–Maxwell local evolution combines them, verifies smooth coefficients and no derivative coupling through the algebraic stress, and applies the conditional local solver.
Local high-Sobolev and smooth electrovacuum includes the local smooth existence clause on arbitrary smooth initial slices. It proves the derivative-variable compatibility, local Maxwell constraint propagation and Einstein harmonic recovery, conditional on the CP01 carriers named above.
Maxwell Gauss constraints propagate by form transport proves local recovery of from the normal-slot equations and zero initial Gauss divergences for metric, field and transverse future unit normal; the smooth local developments here satisfy these hypotheses. Einstein harmonic gauge propagation with Maxwell on shell proves local and recovery of the unreduced Einstein equation from the normal constraints and conserved stress.
Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data applies to a fixed covariant matter model with a symmetric-hyperbolic reduction, complete smooth matter initialization, propagated auxiliary compatibility, on-shell stress conservation, and the Einstein constraints. Its actual published carrier has precheck pending; its statement and full local proof were inspected.
Causal and Cauchy-surface inputs for smooth electrovacuum developments collects the exact local causal-neighborhood, globally hyperbolic Cauchy-neighborhood, and choice interfaces used in the local-development conclusion.
Proof
On the abstract initial bundle , the displayed formulas assign the three normal-spatial components and the three spatial-spatial components of an antisymmetric two-form. These are all six independent components of a two-form in four dimensions, so they determine a unique complete initial without choosing a potential or assuming global exactness. They are smooth because are smooth and the reconstruction is tensorial under oriented orthonormal-frame changes.
In each relatively compact initial coordinate ball choose product coordinates with on the slice and there. Choose a smooth positive spatial background and put . Relative to , prescribe , , , , , and . The same Christoffel computation as the periodic construction [L4], now carried out on this local chart, gives and . This local jet is smooth and compatible with the first-order reduction. The metric block has time matrix by [F1]'s reduced Einstein principal-part supplier, and the Maxwell block has time matrix by [F1]. On the open state neighborhood where , and , their block sum is positive definite; every spatial matrix is symmetric. Since is algebraic in the state, it contributes only to lower-order terms and creates no off-diagonal derivative blocks. The prescribed local high-Sobolev construction [F2] applies after the compact chart localization in its proof and yields a reduced solution. Its derivative relations propagate; [F3] restores both Maxwell equations and the full Einstein equation on a smaller local domain. Every smooth physical solution in the same harmonic chart extracts to this same coefficient system because the component equations are precisely the harmonic-reduced Einstein equation and field-strength Maxwell evolution. This verifies the local symmetric-hyperbolic, recovery and compatibility hypotheses of [F4].
The equations and are covariant: pullback commutes with exterior differentiation, and for an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism , . The algebraic stress is likewise natural under pullback. Thus the matter field, equations, stress and initial reconstruction define one fixed covariant model of the kind required by [F4]; no coordinate-dependent potential gauge is introduced.
Step 1.2, using [F3], has already recovered on the local development; [L1] fixes the corresponding source-free model and stress tensor. The exact Hodge conversion in [L3] gives , so the stress identity applies with and yields , independently of the unreduced Einstein equation. The constraints in the Statement are exactly [L2]'s four normal-projection constraints with the same sign, orientation, and conventions. This verifies the conservation and Einstein-constraint hypotheses of [F4].
We have now checked every specific input of [F4]: a fixed covariant model by step 2.1, complete matter data and smooth initialization by step 1.1 and the local harmonic jet in step 1.2, a smooth symmetric-hyperbolic reduction and reconstruction by step 1.2, on-shell stress conservation by step 2.2, and the model's Einstein constraints by [L2]. The choice assumptions are those in the Statement. Applying [F4] gives the smooth local development, variable-width collar, intrinsic globally hyperbolic Cauchy neighborhood and data-fixing isometry matching . The causal qualifications in [F5] confirm that no compactness or uniform collar width is used.
Depends on
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain
Electrovacuum tensor Cauchy system
Positive symmetric Maxwell field-strength reduction
Maxwell Gauss constraints propagate by form transport
Coupled reduced Einstein–Maxwell local evolution
Principal part of the reduced Einstein operator and its first-order symmetric hyperbolic reduction
Einstein harmonic gauge propagation with Maxwell on shell
Local high-Sobolev and smooth electrovacuum
Maxwell stress algebra and covariant conservation
Gauss-Codazzi and Maxwell initial constraints
Harmonic initial data relative to a fixed smooth background
Causal and Cauchy-surface inputs for smooth electrovacuum developments
Local geometric development for a fixed covariant Einstein-matter model with complete constrained data
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Sources
- P. T. Chruściel, An introduction to the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations, Roscoff lecture notes (2011), §1.6 and the local Cauchy-problem discussion.
- M. Alcubierre, J. C. Degollado and M. Salgado, The Einstein-Maxwell system in 3+1 form and initial data for multiple charged black holes, arXiv:0907.1151v2 (2009), §II and §II.A, printed pp. 3–8.