A symmetric hyperbolic formulation of the vacuum Einstein equations in affine-null coordinates

DOI10.1063/5.0055561zbMATH Open1470.83017arXiv2104.09972OpenAlexW3166604224WikidataQ115553581 ScholiaQ115553581MaRDI QIDQ5000201FDOQ5000201

Justin Ripley

Publication date: 9 July 2021

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

Abstract: We present a symmetric hyperbolic formulation of the Einstein equations in affine-null coordinates. Giannakopoulos et. al. (arXiv:2007.06419) recently showed that the most commonly numerically implemented formulations of the Einstein equations in affine-null coordinates (and other single-null coordinate systems) are only weakly-but not strongly-hyperbolic. By making use of the tetrad-based Newman-Penrose formalism, our formulation avoids the hyperbolicity problems of the formulations investigated by Giannakopoulos et. al. We discuss a potential application of our formulation for studying gravitational wave scattering.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09972

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavevacuum Einstein equationNewman-Penrose formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein equations (35Q76) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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