The maximal development of near-FLRW data for the Einstein-scalar field system with spatial topology ${\mathbb{S}}^3$

Abstract

The Friedmann--Lema\^ıtre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) solution to the Einstein-scalar field system with spatial topology ${\mathbb{S}}^3$ models a universe that emanates from a singular spacelike hypersurface (the Big Bang), along which various spacetime curvature invariants blow up, only to re-collapse in a symmetric fashion in the future (the Big Crunch). In this article, we give a complete description of the maximal developments of perturbations of the FLRW data at the chronological midpoint of its evolution. We show that the perturbed solutions also exhibit curvature blowup along a pair of spacelike hypersurfaces, signifying the stability of the Big Bang and the Big Crunch. Moreover, we provide a sharp description of the asymptotic behavior of the solution up to the singularities, showing in particular that various time-rescaled solution variables converge to regular tensorfields on the singular hypersurfaces that are close to the corresponding FLRW tensorfields. Our proof crucially relies on $L^2$-type approximate monotonicity identities in the spirit of the ones we used in our joint works with Rodnianski, in which we proved similar results for nearly spatially flat solutions with spatial topology ${\mathbb{T}}^3$. In the present article, we rely on new ingredients to handle nearly round spatial metrics on ${\mathbb{S}}^3$, whose curvatures are order-unity near the initial data hypersurface. In particular, our proof relies on i) the construction of a globally defined spatial vectorfield frame adapted to the symmetries of a round metric on ${\mathbb{S}}^3$; ii) estimates for the Lie derivatives of various geometric quantities with respect to the elements of the frame; and iii) sharp estimates for the asymptotic behavior of the FLRW solution's scale factor near the singular hypersurfaces.

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