Cauchy-characteristic matching for a family of cylindrical solutions possessing both gravitational degrees of freedom

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/16/305zbMATH Open0974.83006arXivgr-qc/0002057OpenAlexW1994354459MaRDI QIDQ4523581FDOQ4523581

Authors: Mark R. Dubal, E. A. Sarkies, Ray A. d'Inverno 

Publication date: 14 January 2001

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

Abstract: This paper is part of a long term program to Cauchy-characteristic matching (CCM) codes as investigative tools in numerical relativity. The approach has two distinct features: (i) it dispenses with an outer boundary condition and replaces this with matching conditions at an interface between the Cauchy and characteristic regions, and (ii) by employing a compactified coordinate, it proves possible to generate global solutions. In this paper CCM is applied to an exact two-parameter family of cylindrically symmetric vacuum solutions possessing both gravitational degrees of freedom due to Piran, Safier and Katz. This requires a modification of the previously constructed CCM cylindrical code because, even after using Geroch decomposition to factor out the $z$-direction, the family is not asymptotically flat. The key equations in the characteristic regime turn out to be regular singular in nature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0002057

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical relativitysystems with vacuum cylindrical symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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