Exact analytic characteristic initial data for axisymmetric, non-rotating, vacuum spacetimes, with an application to the binary black hole problem

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/025MaRDI QIDQ4699697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ewald J. H. Wessels

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811074

zbMATH Keywords

Lie group analysisSchwarzschild solutionWeyl spinorSachs equationsaxisymmetric vacuum space-timesBondi's approachNewman-Penrose null tetrad formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: Bondi's approach to the construction of a coordinate system is used with a different choice of gauge, in accordance with which the radial coordinate r is an affine parameter, to cast the metric tensor into a form suitable for use with the Newman-Penrose null tetrad formalism. The choice of tetrad has the result that the equations and all the functions that appear in them are real-valued. A group classification of the Sachs equations in this gauge leads to a unique expression for the first of the five independent elements $Ps{i}_0$ of the Weyl spinor, and to the corresponding exact solutions for two of the metric functions on an initial null hypersurface. A proof is presented that the result for $Ps{i}_0$ constitutes the appropriate characteristic initial value function for all physically realistic axisymmetric, non-rotating vacuum spacetimes. Integration of the field equations on the axis of symmetry when an equatorial symmetry plane is also present, and on the equatorial plane itself when time rates of change can be neglected, shows that these data produce results consistent with Newton's laws and with the Schwarzschild solution in the appropriate limits. The solution on the axis of symmetry indicates that the Weyl curvature increases without limit between black holes as their separation decreases.

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