Gauge stability of 3 + 1 formulations of general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/4/314MaRDI QIDQ4330271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Khokhlov, I. D. Novikov

Publication date 28 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111023

zbMATH Keywords

numerical relativity\(3+1\) general relativitygauge stability

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)

Abstract: We present a general approach to the analysis of gauge stability of 3+1 formulations of General Relativity (GR). Evolution of coordinate perturbations and the corresponding perturbations of lapse and shift can be described by a system of eight quasi-linear partial differential equations. Stability with respect to gauge perturbations depends on a choice of gauge and a background metric, but it does not depend on a particular form of a 3+1 system if its constrained solutions are equivalent to those of the Einstein equations. Stability of a number of known gauges is investigated in the limit of short-wavelength perturbations. All fixed gauges except a synchronous gauge are found to be ill-posed. A maximal slicing gauge and its parabolic extension are shown to be ill-posed as well. A necessary condition is derived for well-posedness of metric-dependent algebraic gauges. Well-posed metric-dependent gauges are found, however, to be generally unstable. Both instability and ill-posedness are associated with perturbations of physical accelerations of reference frames.

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