Well-posed initial-boundary evolution in general relativity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.041501zbMATH Open1244.83010arXivgr-qc/0205044OpenAlexW2007443477MaRDI QIDQ2903547FDOQ2903547

Authors: Béla Szilágyi, Jeffrey Winicour 

Publication date: 10 August 2012

Published in: Physical Review D. Series III (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in a linearized sense. The method is implemented as a nonlinear evolution code which satisfies convergence tests in the nonlinear regime and is robustly stable in the weak field regime. A linearized version has been stably matched to a characteristic code to compute the gravitational waveform radiated to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205044

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityinitial-boundary evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

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