Abstract
This paper addresses pure gauge questions in the study of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. We construct global solutions to the eikonal equation on de Sitter, whose level sets give rise to double null foliations, and give detailed estimates for the structure coefficients in this gauge. We show two results that are relevant for the foliations used by the author in the context of the stability problem of the expanding region of Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetimes: (i) Small perturbations of round spheres on the cosmological horizons lead to spheres that pinch off at infinity. (ii) Globally well-behaved double null foliations can be constructed from infinity using a choice of spheres related to the level sets of a new mass aspect function. While (i) shows that in the above stability problem a final gauge choice is necessary, the proof of (ii) already outlines a strategy for the case of spacetimes with decaying, instead of vanishing, conformal Weyl curvature.
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