Stability of asymptotic behaviour within polarized T2-symmetric vacuum solutions with cosmological constant

Abstract

We prove the nonlinear stability of the asymptotic behaviour of perturbations of subfamilies of Kasner solutions in the contracting time direction within the class of polarized T2-symmetric solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with arbitrary cosmological constant Λ. This stability result generalizes the results proven in Ames E et al. (2022 Stability of AVTD Behavior within the Polarized T2-symmetric vacuum spacetimes. Ann. Henri Poincaré. (doi:10.1007/s00023-021-01142-0)), which focus on the Λ=0 case, and as in that article, the proof relies on an areal time foliation and Fuchsian techniques. Even for Λ=0, the results established here apply to a wider class of perturbations of Kasner solutions within the family of polarized T2-symmetric vacuum solutions than those considered in Ames E et al. (2022 Stability of AVTD Behavior within the Polarized T2-symmetric vacuum spacetimes. Ann. Henri Poincaré. (doi:10.1007/s00023-021-01142-0)) and Fournodavlos G et al. (2020 Stable Big Bang formation for Einstein’s equations: the complete sub-critical regime. Preprint. (http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05888)). Our results establish that the areal time coordinate takes all values in (0,T0] for some T0>0, for certain families of polarized T2-symmetric solutions with cosmological constant. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The future of mathematical cosmology, Volume 1’.