Abstract
General relativity is a gravitational theory born a century ago, in which the universe is a 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold (N,gamma) called spacetime and satisfying Einstein's field equations. When we separate the time dimension from the three spatial ones, constraint equations naturally follow on from the 3+1 décomposition of Einstein's equations. Constraint equations constitute a necessary condition,as well as sufficient, to consider the spacetime N as the time evolution of a Riemannian hypersurface (m,g) embeded into N with the second fundamental form K. (m,g,K) is then an element of C, the set of initial data solutions to the constraint equations. In this work, we use Robert Bartnik's method to provide a Hilbert submanifold structure on C for weakly asymptotically hyperbolic initial data, whose regularity can be related to the bounded L^{2} curvature conjecture. Difficulties arising from the weakly AH case led us to introduce two second order differential operators and we obtain Poincaré and Korn-type estimates for them. Once the Hilbert structure is properly described, we define a mass functional smooth on the submanifold C and compatible with our weak regularity assumptions. The geometrical invariance of the mass is studied and proven, only up to a weak regularity conjecture about coordinate changes near infinity. Finally, we make a correspondance between critical points of the mass and static metrics.