Fixed mesh refinement in the characteristic formulation of general relativity

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2273-0zbMATH Open1397.83006arXiv1707.04938OpenAlexW2738432602MaRDI QIDQ1787940FDOQ1787940

Authors: W. Barreto, H. P. de Oliveira, B. Rodriguez-Mueller 

Publication date: 5 October 2018

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We implement a spatially fixed mesh refinement under spherical symmetry for the characteristic formulation of General Relativity. The Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL) condition lets us deploy an adaptive resolution in (retarded-like) time, even for the nonlinear regime. As test cases, we replicate the main features of the gravitational critical behavior and the spacetime structure at null infinity using the Bondi mass and the News function. Additionally, we obtain the global energy conservation for an extreme situation, i.e. in the threshold of the black hole formation. In principle, the calibrated code can be used in conjunction with an ADM 3+1 code to confirm the critical behavior recently reported in the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in an asymptotic anti-de Sitter spacetime. For the scenarios studied, the fixed mesh refinement offers improved runtime and results comparable to code without mesh refinement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04938

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondencecharacteristic formulationholographic principlenumerical relativitycritical behaviourasymptotically AdS spacetimesfixed mesh refinement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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