On the existence of a maximal Cauchy development for the Einstein equations: a dezornification

In 1969, Choquet-Bruhat and Geroch established the existence of a unique maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy development of given initial data for the Einstein equations. Their proof, however, has the unsatisfactory feature that it relies crucially on the axiom of choice in the form of Zorn’s lemma....

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Main Author: Sbierski, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer 2015