Presented By: Student Analysis Seminar - Department of Mathematics
Student Analysis Seminar: Hyperbolic systems for the Einstein equations: local well-posedness and energy estimate
Shuhong Yang
This talk continues the discussion of hyperbolic formulations of the vacuum Einstein equations (VEE). The previous talk in Fall 2025, we introduced the first local well-posedness result, established by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat in 1952 using the “wave gauge”. This talk considers alternative approaches when assuming asymptotic flatness. By evolving VEE with a “maximal time foliation”, one can establish an elliptic-hyperbolic local well-posedness and an electric-magnetic type energy estimate. These are important ingredients in proof of global stability of Minkowski spacetime (Christodoulou–Klainerman, 1993).