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A4 - Asymptotia, singularities, and global structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

B. G. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute für Astrophysik
Neil Ashby
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
David F. Bartlett
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
Walter Wyss
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Summary

Let me organize this report by comparing some of the issues with the achievements described in the contributed papers.

Two important questions of ‘Asymptopia” are: (1) Relations between the sources and the asymptotic field of space-time, and (2) The existence and smoothness property of solutions of the field equations admitting a null infinity in the sense of Penrose. In view of its importance it is regrettable that not a single paper addressed the first question. Apparently it can still only be treated in the context of approximation methods. (Compare the workshops A5, A6.) Concerning the second question there is still no proof or counter example known.

There were however two contributions dealing with existence questions of solutions with certain asymptotic properties. Choquet-Bruhat demonstrated the existence of global solutions of the Yang-Mills Higgs equations of Anti-de Sitter space-time, under the condition that there is no radiation at timelike infinity. Reula showed - via implicit function theorem techniques - that near the Schwarzschild solution there does exist the expected number of stationary solutions of the vacuum field equations, with well defined Geroch-Hansen multipole moments. Up to now this was only known for the Weyl solutions, hence in the axisymmetric case.

The further contributions under this heading consisted mainly in extensions or refinements of already known results or approaches to certain questions. Let me mention two examples: Bičak and Schmidt extended the investigation of the global structure of boost-rotationally symmetric vacuum spacetimes.

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General Relativity and Gravitation, 1989
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
, pp. 105 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1990

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