On the Newtonian limit of general relativity

DOI10.1007/BF02112314MaRDI QIDQ1344487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simonetta Frittelli, O. Reula

Publication date 13 February 1995

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506077

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's equationsinitialization procedureNewtonian solutionrelativistic solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We find a choice of variables for the 3+1 formulation of general relativity which casts the evolution equations into (flux-conservative) symmetric-hyperbolic first order form for arbitrary lapse and shift, for the first time. We redefine the lapse function in terms of the determinant of the 3-metric and a free function U which embodies the lapse freedom. By rescaling the variables with appropriate factors of 1/c, the system is shown to have a smooth Newtonian limit when the redefined lapse U and the shift are fixed by means of elliptic equations to be satisfied on each time slice. We give a prescription for the choice of appropriate initial data with controlled extra-radiation content, based on the theory of problems with different time-scales. Our results are local, in the sense that we are not concerned with the treatment of asymptotic regions. On the other hand, this local theory is all what is needed for most problems of practical numerical computation.

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