Stable fixed points of the Einstein flow with a positive cosmological constant
Speaker:
Klaus Kröncke, University of Hamburg
Date and Time:
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 210
Abstract:
We give a concise proof of nonlinear stability for a large class of solutions to the Einstein equations with a positive cosmological constant and compact spatial topology, where the spatial metric is Einstein with either positive or negative Einstein constant. The proof uses the CMC Einstein flow and stability follows by an energy argument. We prove in addition that the development of non-CMC initial data close to the background contains a CMC hypersurface, which in turn implies that stability holds for arbitrary perturbations. This is joint work with David Fajman.