The reverse Burnett conjecture for null dusts

Abstract

Given a regular solution $\mathbf{g}_0$ of the Einstein-null dusts system without restriction on the number of dusts, we construct families of solutions $(\mathbf{g}_\lambda)_{\lambda\in(0,1]}$ of the Einstein vacuum equations such that $\mathbf{g}_\lambda-\mathbf{g}_0$ and $\partial(\mathbf{g}_\lambda-\mathbf{g}_0)$ converges respectively strongly and weakly to 0 when $\lambda\to0$. Our construction, based on a multiphase geometric optics ansatz, thus extends the validity of the reverse Burnett conjecture without symmetry to a large class of massless kinetic spacetimes. In order to deal with the finite but arbitrary number of direction of oscillations we work in a generalised wave gauge and control precisely the self-interaction of each wave but also the interaction of waves propagating in different null directions, relying crucially on the non-linear structure of the Einstein vacuum equations. We also provide the construction of oscillating initial data solving the vacuum constraint equations and which are consistent with the spacetime ansatz.