Well-posed forms of the 3+1 conformally-decomposed Einstein equations

DOI10.1063/1.533022MaRDI QIDQ4498405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simonetta Frittelli, O. Reula

Publication date 16 August 2000

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904048

zbMATH Keywords

\(3+1\) Einstein equationsconstraintsEinstein equationsnumerical integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We show that well-posed, conformally-decomposed formulations of the 3+1 Einstein equations can be obtained by densitizing the lapse and by combining the constraints with the evolution equations. We compute the characteristics structure and verify the constraint propagation of these new well-posed formulations. In these formulations, the trace of the extrinsic curvature and the determinant of the 3-metric are singled out from the rest of the dynamical variables, but are evolved as part of the well-posed evolution system. The only free functions are the lapse density and the shift vector. We find that there is a 3-parameter freedom in formulating these equations in a well-posed manner, and that part of the parameter space found consists of formulations with causal characteristics, namely, characteristics that lie only within the lightcone. In particular there is a 1-parameter family of systems whose characteristics are either normal to the slicing or lie along the lightcone of the evolving metric.

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