A limit equation associated to the solvability of the vacuum Einstein constraint equations using the conformal method

Abstract

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold on which a trace-free and divergence-free $\sigma \in W^{1,p}$ and a positive function $\tau \in W^{1,p}$, $p>n$, are fixed. In this paper, we study the vacuum Einstein constraint equations using the well known conformal method with data $\sigma$ and $\tau$. We show that if no solution exists then there is a non-trivial solution of another non-linear limit equation on $1$-forms. This last equation can be shown to be without solutions no solution in many situations. As a corollary, we get existence of solutions of the vacuum Einstein constraint equation under explicit assumptions which in particular hold on a dense set of metrics $g$ for the $C^0$-topology.

Proposition 1.6 changed, error in the proof of this result in the previous version of the article

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