Geometric optics approximation for the Einstein vacuum equations
Arthur Touati1
1 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2022-2023), Talk no. 7, 13 p.

We present recent works on the construction of high-frequency solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations in general relativity, based on [Tou22b, Tou23]. In these articles, the author shows the existence of a family of vacuum spacetimes (g λ ) λ∈(0,1] in generalised wave gauge oscillating at frequency λ -1 and defined by a geometric optics ansatz. In this survey, we first review the Cauchy theory for the Einstein vacuum equations in wave gauge, geometric optics and Burnett’s conjecture in general relativity. This will motivate our main result, for which we provide a sketch of proof high-lighting both quasi-linear and semi-linear challenges.

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DOI: 10.5802/slsedp.159
Arthur Touati 1

1 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France 
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Arthur Touati. Geometric optics approximation for the Einstein vacuum equations. Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2022-2023), Talk no. 7, 13 p. doi : 10.5802/slsedp.159. https://proceedings.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/slsedp.159/

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