Hyperbolic formulations and numerical relativity: Experiments using Ashtekar's connection variables

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/23/302MaRDI QIDQ2703408zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gen Yoneda, Hisa-Aki Shinkai

Publication date 5 March 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0005003

zbMATH Keywords

ADM (Arnowitt-Deser-Misner) formalismAshtekar variablesBrailovskaya methodCrank-Nicholson methodnumerical gravitystrongly hyperbolic systemsymmetric hyperbolic systemweakly hyperbolic system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: In order to perform accurate and stable long-time numerical integration of the Einstein equation, several hyperbolic systems have been proposed. We here present numerical comparisons between weakly hyperbolic, strongly hyperbolic, and symmetric hyperbolic systems based on Ashtekar's connection variables. The primary advantage for using this connection formulation in this experiment is that we can keep using the same dynamical variables for all levels of hyperbolicity. Our numerical code demonstrates gravitational wave propagation in plane symmetric spacetimes, and we compare the accuracy of the simulation by monitoring the violation of the constraints. By comparing with results obtained from the weakly hyperbolic system, we observe the strongly and symmetric hyperbolic system show better numerical performance (yield less constraint violation), but not so much difference between the latter two. Rather, we find that the symmetric hyperbolic system is not always the best in numerical performances. This study is the premier to present full numerical simulations using Ashtekar's variables. We also describe our procedures in detail.

Review text

The paper discusses several formulations of general relativity aiming at the best numerical estimates. The authors compare especially the ADM (Arnowitt-Deser-Misner) formalism as a standard tool in canonical and numerical gravity, with the Ashtekar formalism, with partly used additional gauge conditions. The gauge conditions ensure that the systems are weakly, strongly or symmetric hyperbolic. The numerical laboratory working with the gravitational wave propagation in plane symmetric spacetimes, the violation of the constraint equations are the numerical control parameters showing the accuracy of the simulation. The time integration uses two different methods, the Crank-Nicholson method and the Brailovskaya method. In the considered case both methods give nearly identical evolutions, but the Brailovskaya method requires less computational time. It is shown that the violation of the constraints for the ADM- and Ashtekar (it is perhaps the first use of this formulation in numerical relativity) evolution are similar. Furthermore the comparison between the weakly hyperbolic and the strongly hyperbolic and symmetric hyperbolic systems shows that the last two have better properties. The differences between the strongly and symmetric hyperbolic systems are small.

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