Ill-posedness of a double-null free-evolution scheme for black hole spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/4/014MaRDI QIDQ4340979zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Gundlach, Jorge Pullin

Publication date 19 October 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9606022

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationblack holesEinstein equationsfree-evolution scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: We suggest that ``free evolution integration schemes for the Einstein equations (that do not enforce constraints) may contain exponentially growing modes that render them useless in numerical integrations of black hole spacetimes, independently of how the equations are differenced. As an example we consider the evolution of Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr"om spacetimes in double null coordinates.

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