A no-boundary method for numerical relativity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB5E99MaRDI QIDQ5161318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08657

zbMATH Keywords

black hole formationboundary conditionsnumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We propose a method for numerical relativity in which the spatial grid is finite and no outer boundary condition is needed. As a "proof of concept" we implement this method for the case of a self-gravitating, spherically symmetric scalar field.

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