Numerical stability of a new conformal-traceless 3 plus 1 formulation of the Einstein equation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/14/309zbMATH Open1002.83014arXivgr-qc/0202105OpenAlexW3104794183MaRDI QIDQ3146142FDOQ3146142

Authors: Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker 

Publication date: 19 January 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is strong evidence indicating that the particular form used to recast the Einstein equation as a 3+1 set of evolution equations has a fundamental impact on the stability properties of numerical evolutions involving black holes and/or neutron stars. Presently, the longest lived evolutions have been obtained using a parametrized hyperbolic system developed by Kidder, Scheel and Teukolsky or a conformal-traceless system introduced by Baumgarte, Shapiro, Shibata and Nakamura. We present a new conformal-traceless system. While this new system has some elements in common with the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura system, it differs in both the type of conformal transformations and how the non-linear terms involving the extrinsic curvature are handled. We show results from 3D numerical evolutions of a single, non-rotating black hole in which we demonstrate that this new system yields a significant improvement in the life-time of the simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202105

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical stabilityEinstein equationconformal-traceless \(3+1\) formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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