On the Stability of Einstein Manifolds with Boundary

Abstract

We study the stability problem for Einstein manifolds with boundary with respect to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The geometric boundary conditions we are using arise naturally from studying the calculus of variations associated with Ricci flow. Upon the introduction of a boundary, the space of TTg tensors no longer arise naturally as the defining space for the stability condition. Thus we must settle for the larger subspace of tensors preserving the scalar curvature, the total volume and the Bianchi gauge condition, which we call the space of TVg tensors. As a test-case, we shall discuss stability of the Riemannian Schwarzschild anti-deSitter family of metrics; a problem known as "a Black hole in a box".