Calculating initial data for the conformal Einstein equations by pseudo-spectral methods

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00168-5MaRDI QIDQ1807734zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors J. Frauendiener

Publication date 9 May 2000

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9806103

zbMATH Keywords

conformal Einstein equationshyperboloidal initial datanumerical relativitypseudospectral methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We present a numerical scheme for determining hyperboloidal initial data sets for the conformal field equations by using pseudo-spectral methods. This problem is split into two parts. The first step is the determination of a suitable conformal factor which transforms from an initial data set in physical space-time to a hyperboloidal hypersurface in the ambient conformal manifold. This is achieved by solving the Yamabe equation, a non-linear second order equation. The second step is a division by the conformal factor of certain fields which vanish on $scri$, the zero set of the conformal factor. The challenge there is to numerically obtain a smooth quotient. Both parts are treated by pseudo-spectral methods. The non-linear equation is solved iteratively while the division problem is treated by transforming the problem to the coefficient space, solving it there by the QR-factorisation of a suitable matrix, and then transforming back. These hyperboloidal initial data can be used to generate general relativistic space-times by evolution with the conformal field equations.

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