Type II critical collapse on a single fixed grid: a gauge-driven ingoing boundary method

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02768-XzbMATH Open1465.83019arXiv2008.12726OpenAlexW3082850095WikidataQ126128886 ScholiaQ126128886MaRDI QIDQ828809FDOQ828809

Authors: Oliver Rinne 

Publication date: 5 May 2021

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a numerical method suitable for gravitational collapse based on Cauchy evolution with an ingoing characteristic boundary. Unlike similar methods proposed recently (Ripley; Bieri, Garfinkle & Yau 2019/20), the numerical grid remains fixed during the evolution and no points need to be removed or added. Increasing coordinate refinement of the central region as the field collapses is achieved solely through the choice of spatial gauge and particularly its boundary condition. We apply this method to study critical collapse of a massless scalar field in spherical symmetry using maximal slicing and isotropic coordinates. Known results on mass scaling, discrete self-similarity and universality of the critical solution (Choptuik 1993) are reproduced using this considerably simpler numerical method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12726

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesboundary conditionsnumerical relativitycritical collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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