On the Newtonian limit of general relativity

DOI10.1007/BF02112314MaRDI QIDQ1344487zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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 equationsNewtonian solutioninitialization procedurerelativistic solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Recommendations

• The Newtonian limit on cosmological scales
• The fast Newtonian limit for perfect fluids
• The Newtonian limit for perfect fluids
• Fast and slow solutions in General Relativity: The initialization procedure
• A canonical dynamics view of the Newtonian limit of general relativity

Cites work

• General Relativity
• Hamiltonian formulation of gravitating perfect fluids and the Newtonian limit
• Hyperbolicity of the 3+1 system of Einstein equations
• Newtonian gravity on the null cone
• Problems with Different Time Scales for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
• Problems with Different Time Scales for Ordinary Differential Equations

Cited in

(41)

• Theorems on existence and global dynamics for the Einstein equations
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4086485 (Why is no real title available?)
• The Newtonian limit of relativity theory and the rationality of theory change
• A canonical dynamics view of the Newtonian limit of general relativity
• Well-posed forms of the 3+1 conformally-decomposed Einstein equations
• THE CONSISTENT NEWTONIAN LIMIT OF EINSTEIN'S GRAVITY WITH A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
• Ill-posedness in the Einstein equations
• Numerical relativity as a tool for computational astrophysics
• Theorems on existence and global dynamics for the Einstein equations
• Towards a physics-motivated small-velocities approximation to general relativity
• Hyperbolic methods for Einstein's equations
• Einstein’s equations with asymptotically stable constraint propagation
• Limits of the energy - momentum tensor in general relativity
• Gamma-ray bursts: LIGO/VIRGO sources of gravitational radiation
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3994494 (Why is no real title available?)
• The structure of the Newtonian limit
• The Newtonian limit of fourth-order gravity
• Fixing Einstein's Equations
• The Newtonian limit for perfect fluids
• The Newtonian limit on cosmological scales
• Numerical relativity and compact binaries
• The initial boundary value problem for the Einstein equations with totally geodesic timelike boundary
• Fast and slow solutions in General Relativity: The initialization procedure
• Numerical integration of Einstein's field equations
• Conformal infinity
• On the status of Newtonian gravitational radiation
• General models of Einstein gravity with a non-Newtonian weak-field limit
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1140635 (Why is no real title available?)
• Covariant Poisson's equation in torsional Newton-Cartan gravity
• The Newtonian limit of spacetimes for accelerated particles and black holes
• The Newtonian limit of Hermitian gravity
• Local and global existence theorems for the Einstein equations
• Conformal infinity
• Newtonian limit for the relativistic Euler-Poisson equations with vacuum
• Newtonian, Post-Newtonian and Parametrized Post-Newtonian limits of f(R, 𝒢) gravity
• Editorial note to: On the Newtonian limit of Einstein's theory of gravitation (by Jürgen Ehlers)
• Hamiltonian Time Evolution for General Relativity
• Constructing hyperbolic systems in the Ashtekar formulation of general relativity
• General relativity exactly described in terms of Newton's laws within curved geometries
• Existence of families of spacetimes with a Newtonian limit
• Local and global existence theorems for the Einstein equations

This page was built for publication: On the Newtonian limit of general relativity

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1344487)