Constructing ``non-Kerrness on compact domains

DOI10.1063/1.3702569zbMATH Open1279.83004arXiv1111.6019OpenAlexW3102173485MaRDI QIDQ2860733FDOQ2860733

Thomas Bäckdahl, Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

Publication date: 20 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a compact domain of a 3-dimensional hypersurface on a vacuum spacetime, a scalar (the "non-Kerrness") is constructed by solving a Dirichlet problem for a second order elliptic system. If such scalar vanishes, and a set of conditions are satisfied at a point, then the domain of dependence of the compact domain is isometric to a portion of a member of the Kerr family of solutions to the Einstein field equations. This construction is expected to be of relevance in the analysis of numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6019

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemnumerical simulationcompact domainblack hole spacetimeKerr family

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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Cited In (7)

• New conserved currents for vacuum space-times in dimension four with a Killing vector
• A set of invariant quality factors measuring the deviation from the Kerr metric
• Closed conformal Killing–Yano initial data
• The conformal Killing spinor initial data equations
• How to Measure Deviation from the Kerr Initial Data: Recent Progress
• Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions of Einstein's field equation: An Introduction
• A geometric invariant characterising initial data for the Kerr-Newman spacetime

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