Axisymmetric constant mean curvature slices in the Kerr spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/7/075017zbMATH Open1291.83033arXiv1310.4699OpenAlexW3102273301MaRDI QIDQ5416482FDOQ5416482

Authors: David Schinkel, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Marcus Ansorg 

Publication date: 20 May 2014

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

Abstract: Recently, there have been efforts to solve Einstein's equation in the context of a conformal compactification of space-time. Of particular importance in this regard are the so called CMC-foliations, characterized by spatial hyperboloidal hypersurfaces with a constant extrinsic mean curvature K. However, although of interest for general space-times, CMC-slices are known explicitly only for the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild metric. This work is devoted to numerically determining axisymmetric CMC-slices within the Kerr solution. We construct such slices outside the black hole horizon through an appropriate coordinate transformation in which an unknown auxiliary function A is involved. The condition K=const. throughout the slice leads to a nonlinear partial differential equation for the function A, which is solved with a pseudo-spectral method. The results exhibit exponential convergence, as is to be expected in a pseudo-spectral scheme for analytic solutions. As a by-product, we identify CMC-slices of the Schwarzschild solution which are not spherically symmetric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4699

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57)

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