Symmetry-seeking spacetime coordinates

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/325MaRDI QIDQ4934973zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Garfinkle, C. Gundlach

Publication date 3 April 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9908016

zbMATH Keywords

approximate timelike Killing vectorcritical gravitational collapsefluid collapsenumerically constructing a spacetimescalar field collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: In numerically constructing a spacetime that has an approximate timelike Killing vector, it is useful to choose spacetime coordinates adapted to the symmetry, so that the metric and matter variables vary only slowly with time in these coordinates. In particular, this is a crucial issue in numerically calculating a binary black hole inspiral. An approximate homothetic vector plays a role in critical gravitational collapse. We summarize old and new suggestions for finding such coordinates from a general point of view. We then test some of these in various toy models with spherical symmetry, including critical fluid collapse and critical scalar field collapse.

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