Conservative discretization of the Einstein–Dirac equations in spherically symmetric spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/16/S17MaRDI QIDQ5486419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benedikt Zeller, Ralf Hiptmair

Publication date 6 September 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607128

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: In computational relativity, critical behaviour near the black hole threshold has been studied numerically for several models in the last decade. In this paper we present a spatial Galerkin method, suitable for finding numerical solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equations in spherically symmetric spacetime (in polar/areal coordinates). The method features exact conservation of the total electric charge and allows for a spatial mesh adaption based on physical arclength. Numerical experiments confirm excellent robustness and convergence properties of our approach. Hence, this new algorithm is well suited for studying critical behaviour.

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