Stability of AVTD Behavior Within the Polarized T2 -Symmetric Vacuum Spacetimes

Ellery Ames, Florian Beyer, James Isenberg, Todd A. Oliynyk

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Abstract

We prove stability of the family of Kasner solutions within the class of polarized T2-symmetric solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in the contracting time direction with respect to an areal time foliation. All Kasner solutions for which the asymptotic velocity parameter K satisfies | K- 1 | > 2 are non-linearly stable, and all sufficiently small perturbations exhibit asymptotically velocity term dominated (AVTD) behavior and blow-up of the Kretschmann scalar.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2299–2343
Number of pages45
JournalAnnales Henri Poincare
Volume23
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jan 2022

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