Simplicial Brill wave initial data

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/6/327MaRDI QIDQ4699958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrian P. Gentle

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/9901071

zbMATH Keywords

axisymmetric spacetimegravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Regge calculus is used to construct initial data for vacuum axisymmetric Brill waves at a moment of time symmetry. We argue that only a tetrahedral lattice can successfully reproduce the continuum solution, and develop a simplicial axisymmetric lattice based on the co-ordinate structure of the continuum metric. This is used to construct initial data for Brill waves in an otherwise flat spacetime, and for the distorted black hole spacetime of Bernstein. These initial data sets are shown to be second order accurate approximations to the corresponding continuum solutions.

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