The initial boundary value problem for free-evolution formulations of general relativity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA96C6zbMATH Open1382.83013arXiv1609.06925OpenAlexW3104464192MaRDI QIDQ4606565FDOQ4606565

Authors: David Hilditch, Milton Ruiz 

Publication date: 8 March 2018

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

Abstract: We consider the initial boundary value problem for free-evolution formulations of general relativity coupled to a parametrized family of coordinate conditions that includes both the moving puncture and harmonic gauges. We concentrate primarily on boundaries that are geometrically determined by the outermost normal observer to spacelike slices of the foliation. We present high-order-derivative boundary conditions for the gauge, constraint violating and gravitational wave degrees of freedom of the formulation. Second order derivative boundary conditions are presented in terms of the conformal variables used in numerical relativity simulations. Using Kreiss-Agranovich-Metivier theory we demonstrate, in the frozen coefficient approximation, that with sufficiently high order derivative boundary conditions the initial boundary value problem can be rendered boundary stable. The precise number of derivatives required depends on the gauge. For a choice of the gauge condition that renders the system strongly hyperbolic of constant multiplicity, well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem follows in this approximation. Taking into account the theory of pseudo-differential operators, it is expected that the nonlinear problem is also well-posed locally in time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06925

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsinitial value problemsnumerical relativityfree-evolution formulations of general relativity

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)

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