Dimensional reduction in numerical relativity: modified Cartoon formalism and regularization

DOI10.1142/S0218271816410133MaRDI QIDQ2826542zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors William G. Cook, Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, Ulrich Sperhake, Saran Tunyasuvunakool

Publication date 17 October 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00362

zbMATH Keywords

black holeshigher dimensionsnumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We present in detail the Einstein equations in the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation for the case of $D$ dimensional spacetimes with $SO(D-d)$ isometry based on a method originally introduced in Ref.1. Regularized expressions are given for a numerical implementation of this method on a vertex centered grid including the origin of the quasi-radial coordinate that covers the extra dimensions with rotational symmetry. Axisymmetry, corresponding to the value $d=D-2$, represents a special case with fewer constraints on the vanishing of tensor components and is conveniently implemented in a variation of the general method. The robustness of the scheme is demonstrated for the case of a black-hole head-on collision in $D=7$ spacetime dimensions with $SO(4)$ symmetry.

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