A radiation scalar for numerical relativity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.89.271101zbMATH Open1267.83024arXivgr-qc/0210019OpenAlexW2084459198WikidataQ52025201 ScholiaQ52025201MaRDI QIDQ2837680FDOQ2837680

Authors: Christopher Beetle, Lior M. Burko 

Publication date: 11 July 2013

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This letter describes a scalar curvature invariant for general relativity with a certain, distinctive feature. While many such invariants exist, this one vanishes in regions of space-time which can be said unambiguously to contain no gravitational radiation. In more general regions which incontrovertibly support non-trivial radiation fields, it can be used to extract local, coordinate-independent information partially characterizing that radiation. While a clear, physical interpretation is possible only in such radiation zones, a simple algorithm can be given to extend the definition smoothly to generic regions of space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210019

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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