Gauge stability of 3 + 1 formulations of general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/4/314zbMATH Open0999.83006arXivgr-qc/0111023OpenAlexW3105911764MaRDI QIDQ4330271FDOQ4330271

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

Publication date: 28 November 2002

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

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.

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

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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)

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