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

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/16/305MaRDI QIDQ4523581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

numerical relativitysystems with vacuum cylindrical symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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