Characteristic Gluing with Λ: III. High-Differentiability Nonlinear Gluing

Author(s)
Piotr T. Chruściel, Wan Cong, Finnian Gray
Abstract

We prove a nonlinear characteristic Ck-gluing theorem for vacuum gravitational fields in Bondi gauge for a class of characteristic hypersurfaces near static vacuum n-dimensional backgrounds, n≥3, with any finite k, with cosmological constant Λ∈R, near Birmingham-Kottler backgrounds. This generalises the C2-gluing of Aretakis, Czimek and Rodnianski, carried-out near light cones in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
Beijing Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Journal
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume
407
No. of pages
37
ISSN
0010-3616
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.03903
Publication date
02-2026
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103028 Theory of relativity, 103019 Mathematical physics, 101006 Differential geometry
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/2a0c1fbd-27db-4eff-9df8-d5dcf911b716