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The Einstein-Vlasov system in maximal areal coordinates---Local existence and continuation

Sebastian Günther and  Gerhard Rein ,

Department of Mathematics, University of Bayreuth, Germany

* Corresponding author: Gerhard Rein

Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Robert T. Glassey

Received  May 2021 Early access November 2021

We consider the spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Einstein-Vlasov system in maximal areal coordinates. The latter coordinates have been used both in analytical and numerical investigations of the Einstein-Vlasov system [3,8,18,19], but neither a local existence theorem nor a suitable continuation criterion has so far been established for the corresponding nonlinear system of PDEs. We close this gap. Although the analysis follows lines similar to the corresponding result in Schwarzschild coordinates, essential new difficulties arise from to the much more complicated form which the field equations take, while at the same time it becomes easier to control the necessary, highest order derivatives of the solution. The latter observation may be useful in subsequent investigations.

Keywords: Einstein-Vlasov system, maximal areal coordinates, local existence, continuation of solutions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q85, 35Q76; Secondary: 85A05.
Citation: Sebastian Günther, Gerhard Rein. The Einstein-Vlasov system in maximal areal coordinates---Local existence and continuation. Kinetic & Related Models, doi: 10.3934/krm.2021040
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G. Rein and A. D. Rendall, Global existence of solutions of the spherically symmetric Vlasov-Einstein system with small initial data, Comm. Math. Phys., 150 (1992), 561-583.  doi: 10.1007/BF02096962.  Google Scholar

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M. Taylor, The global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space for the massless Einstein-Vlasov system, Ann. PDE, 3 (2017), 177pp. doi: 10.1007/s40818-017-0026-8.  Google Scholar

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J. York, Kinematics and dynamics of general relativity, in Sources of Gravitational Radiation, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 83-126. Google Scholar

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H. Andréasson, Black hole formation from a complete regular past for collisionless matter, Ann. Henri Poincaré, 13 (2012), 1511-1536.  doi: 10.1007/s00023-012-0164-1.  Google Scholar

[2]

H. Andréasson, M. Kunze and G. Rein, Existence of axially symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system, Comm. Math. Phys., 308 (2011), 23-47.  doi: 10.1007/s00220-011-1324-8.  Google Scholar

[3]

H. Andréasson, M. Kunze and G. Rein, Global existence for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system with outgoing matter, Commun. Partial Differential Equations, 33 (2008), 656-668.  doi: 10.1080/03605300701454883.  Google Scholar

[4]

H. Andréasson, M. Kunze and G. Rein, Gravitational collapse and the formation of black holes for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system, Quart. Appl. Math., 68 (2010), 17-42.  doi: 10.1090/S0033-569X-09-01165-9.  Google Scholar

[5]

H. Andréasson, M. Kunze and G. Rein, The formation of black holes in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse, Math. Ann., 350 (2011), 683-705.  doi: 10.1007/s00208-010-0578-3.  Google Scholar

[6]

H. Andréasson, M. Kunze and G. Rein, Rotating, stationary, axially symmetric spacetimes with collisionless matter, Comm. Math. Phys., 329 (2014), 787-808.  doi: 10.1007/s00220-014-1904-5.  Google Scholar

[7]

H. Andréasson and G. Rein, Formation of trapped surfaces for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system, J. Hyperbolic Differ. Equ., 7 (2010), 707-731.  doi: 10.1142/S0219891610002268.  Google Scholar

[8]

H. Andréasson and G. Rein, A numerical investigation of the stability of steady states and critical phenomena for the spherically symmetric Einstein–Vlasov system, Classical Quantum Gravity, 23 (2006), 3659-3677.  doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/001.  Google Scholar

[9]

J. Batt, Global symmetric solutions of the initial value problem of stellar dynamics, J. Differential Equations, 25 (1977), 342-364.  doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(77)90049-3.  Google Scholar

[10] T. Baumgarte and S. Shapiro, Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer, Cambridge University Press, 2010.  doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139193344.  Google Scholar
[11]

Y. Choquet-Bruhat, Problème de Cauchy pour le système intégro différentiel d'Einstein-Liouville, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble), 21 (1971), 181-201.  doi: 10.5802/aif.385.  Google Scholar

[12]

M. Dafermos, Spherically symmetric spacetimes with a trapped surface, Classical Quantum Gravity, 22 (2005), 2221-2232.  doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/11/019.  Google Scholar

[13]

M. Dafermos and A. D. Rendall, An extension principle for the Einstein-Vlasov system in spherical symmetry, Ann. Henri Poincaré, 6 (2005), 1137-1155.  doi: 10.1007/s00023-005-0235-7.  Google Scholar

[14]

D. Fajman, J. Joudioux and J. Smulevici, The stability of the Minkowski space for the Einstein-Vlasov system, Anal. PDE, 14 (2021), 425-531.  doi: 10.2140/apde.2021.14.425.  Google Scholar

[15]

R. T. Glassey and W. A. Strauss, Singularity formation in a collisionless plasma could occur only at high velocities, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 92 (1986), 59-90.  doi: 10.1007/BF00250732.  Google Scholar

[16]

É. Gourgoulhon, $3+1$ Formalism in General Relativity. Bases of Numerical Relativity, Lecture Notes in Physics, 846, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24525-1.  Google Scholar

[17]

S. Günther, The Einstein-Vlasov System in Maximal Areal Coordinates, Masters thesis, University of Bayreuth, 2019. Google Scholar

[18]

S. Günther, J. Körner, T. Lebeda, B. Pötzl, G. Rein, C. Straub and J. Weber, A numerical stability analysis for the Einstein-Vlasov system, Classical Quantum Gravity, 38 (2021), 27pp. doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/abcbdf.  Google Scholar

[19]

S. Günther, C. Straub and G. Rein, Collisionless equilibria in general relativity: Stable configurations beyond the first binding energy maximum, Astrophysical J., 918 (2021), 48pp. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0eef.  Google Scholar

[20]

M. Hadžić, Z. Lin and G. Rein, Stability and instability of self-gravitating relativistic matter distributions, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 241 (2021), 1-89.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-021-01647-2.  Google Scholar

[21]

M. Hadžić and G. Rein, On the small redshift limit of steady states of the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system and their stability, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 159 (2015), 529-546.  doi: 10.1017/S0305004115000511.  Google Scholar

[22]

M. Hadžić and G. Rein, Stability for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system–-A coercivity estimate, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 155 (2013), 529-556.  doi: 10.1017/S030500411300056X.  Google Scholar

[23]

H. Lindblad and M. Taylor, Global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein–Vlasov system in the harmonic gauge, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 235 (2020), 517-633.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-019-01425-1.  Google Scholar

[24]

E. Malec and N. Ó Murchadha, Optical scalars and singularity avoidance in spherical spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D, 50 (1994), R6033–R6036. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.50.R6033.  Google Scholar

[25]

T. Ramming and G. Rein, Spherically symmetric equilibria for self-gravitating kinetic or fluid models in the non-relativistic and relativistic case–-A simple proof for finite extension, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 45 (2013), 900-914.  doi: 10.1137/120896712.  Google Scholar

[26]

G. Rein, Collisionless kinetic equations from astrophysics–-The Vlasov-Poisson system, in Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations, Handb. Differ. Equ., 3, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2007,383–476. doi: 10.1016/S1874-5717(07)80008-9.  Google Scholar

[27]

G. Rein, The Vlasov-Einstein System with Surface Symmetry, Habilitation thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, 1995. Google Scholar

[28]

G. Rein and A. D. Rendall, Global existence of solutions of the spherically symmetric Vlasov-Einstein system with small initial data, Comm. Math. Phys., 150 (1992), 561-583.  doi: 10.1007/BF02096962.  Google Scholar

[29]

G. Rein and A. D. Rendall, Erratum: "Global existence of solutions of the spherically symmetric Vlasov-Einstein system with small initial data", Comm. Math. Phys., 176 (1996), 475-478.  doi: 10.1007/BF02099559.  Google Scholar

[30]

A. D. Rendall, An introduction to the Vlasov-Einstein system, in Mathematics of Gravitation, Part I, Banach Center Publ., 41, Part I, Polish Acad. Sci. Inst. Math., Warsaw, 1997, 35-68.  Google Scholar

[31] A. D. Rendall, Partial Differential Equations in General Relativity, Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 16, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.   Google Scholar
[32]

M. Taylor, The global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space for the massless Einstein-Vlasov system, Ann. PDE, 3 (2017), 177pp. doi: 10.1007/s40818-017-0026-8.  Google Scholar

[33] R. M. Wald, General Relativity, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1984.  doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226870373.001.0001.  Google Scholar
[34]

J. York, Kinematics and dynamics of general relativity, in Sources of Gravitational Radiation, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 83-126. Google Scholar

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