Algebraic stability analysis of constraint propagation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/9/019MaRDI QIDQ4677879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 23 May 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410100

zbMATH Keywords

\(3+1\)-decompositionBianchi equationcomputational gravityconstraint equationsconstraint propagationconstraint violating modesdivergence of the constraint quantitiesfield equations of general relativityhyperbolic equation in general relativityhyperbolic reductionpropagation tensorRouth-Hurwitz criterion for stabilityRouth-Hurwitz inequalitiesstability analysistrivial hyperboloidal foliations of Minkowski spaceWeyl curvature tensorWeyl system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

Abstract: The divergence of the constraint quantities is a major problem in computational gravity today. Apparently, there are two sources for constraint violations. The use of boundary conditions which are not compatible with the constraint equations inadvertently leads to 'constraint violating modes' propagating into the computational domain from the boundary. The other source for constraint violation is intrinsic. It is already present in the initial value problem, i.e. even when no boundary conditions have to be specified. Its origin is due to the instability of the constraint surface in the phase space of initial conditions for the time evolution equations. In this paper, we present a technique to study in detail how this instability depends on gauge parameters. We demonstrate this for the influence of the choice of the time foliation in context of the Weyl system. This system is the essential hyperbolic part in various formulations of the Einstein equations.

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