Seminar series
Date
Tue, 15 May 2007
12:00
12:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Yvonne Choquet Bruhat
Organisation
Universite Pierre & Marie Curie
I sketch, using Kichenassamy - Rendall ideas, a simplified and generalized
proof of the Fuchs theorem for differential equations with a singularity. I use
the theorem to construct solutions of polarized and half polarized U(1)
symmetric vacuum spacetimes with "Asymptotically Velocity Terms Dominated"
(AVTD) behaviour near the singularity. I show that the definition I give of half
polarization for U(1) symmetric vacuum space-times is a necessary and sufficient
condition for non polarized such spacetimes to have this AVTD behaviour.