Perturbations of critical values in nonsmooth critical point theory

* Supported by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (40% – 1993). ** Supported by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (40% – 1993).The perturbation of critical values for continuous functionals is studied. An application to eigenvalue problems for variational inequalities is provided

Lagrangian systems with Lipschitz obstacle on manifolds

Lagrangian systems constrained on the closure of an open subset with Lipschitz boundary in a manifold are considered. Under suitable assumptions, the existence of infinitely many periodic solutions is proved

Rest Frame System for Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes

The notion of center of mass for an isolated system has been previously encoded in the definition of the so called nice sections. In this article we present a generalization of the proof of existence of solutions to the linearized equation for nice sections, and formalize a local existence proof of nice sections relaxing the radiation condition. We report on the differentiable and non-self-crossing properties of this family of solutions. We also give a proof of the global existence of nice sections.Comment: 26 pages, LaTeX2

Black hole formation from massive scalar field collapse in the Einstein-de Sitter universe

We study the spherically symmetric collapse of a real, minimally coupled, massive scalar field in an asymptotically Einstein-de Sitter spacetime background. By means of an eikonal approximation for the field and metric functions, we obtain a simple analytical criterion---involving the physical size and mass scales (the field's inverse Compton wavelength and the spacetime gravitational mass) of the initial matter configuration---for generic (non-time-symmetric) initial data to collapse to a black hole. This analytical condition can then be used to place constraints on the initial primordial black hole spectrum, by considering spherical density perturbations that re-entered the horizon during an early matter-dominated phase that immediately followed inflation.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, 3 eps figures; to appear in Phys. Rev.