Prescriptions for gravitational initial data as judged by a simple radiating model

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Jan 1990

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General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp.81-95

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Several methods of prescribing initial data for gravitational and matter fields, which are intended to eliminate extraneous radiation that is not produced by the matter source, are analysed in a simple exactly soluble radiating model. The model consists of an harmonic oscillator coupled to a scalar field along future light cones of Minkowski space time. In particular we analyze the asymptotic regime of the oscillator and find it is characterized essentially by two distinct decay modes. They differ in the way they behave both in the limit of small coupling constant and in a certain Newtonian limit. As a criterion to select initial data for the field with no extra radiation, we require that these initial data sets should put the oscillator from the start into the asymptotic regime. The underlying hypothesis here is that initial transients result from excitation of the oscillator by incoming radiation. We then see that the requirement of a uniform Newtonian limit leads to unique data for the scalar field for each arbitrary data set for the oscillator. We further find that this unique data set indeed satisfies our criterion.

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