Clearly, the situation is more complicated in the nonpolarized case. Consequently, it is natural to start by
asking questions concerning the rough behavior of solutions. It is also natural to carry out numerical
simulations. This was done in [8], a paper, which played an important role in the further development of
the subject. In the polarized case, the difference between the solution and its spatial average
converges to zero. Does the same phenomenon occur in the general case? This is perhaps too
complicated a question to start with, but it is of interest to know how the spatial variation of the
solution evolves with time. In order to define what is meant by the spatial variation, recall that
Equations (11
) – (12
) can be viewed as wave-map equations in which the metric of the target is given by
Equation (20
). Furthermore, at each point in time, the solution defines a loop in hyperbolic space. The
natural definition of the spatial variation of the solution at one point in time is the length
of this loop with respect to the hyperbolic metric (20
). In other words, it is natural to ask
how
evolves with time. In the case of polarized Gowdy, we know that
asymptotically; see Equation (52) and the adjacent text. Consequently,
in that case, but
there is no better estimate.
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