Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-09-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
6 pages, 4 figures, uses amsmath,amssymb; for DeserFest proceedings; v2 corrects sign error in equation(17a)
Scientific paper
This preliminary report proposes integrating the Maxwell equations in Minkowski spacetime using coordinates where the spacelike surfaces are hyperboloids asymptotic to null cones at spatial infinity. The space coordinates are chosen so that Scri+ occurs at a finite coordinate and a smooth extension beyond Scri+ is obtained. The question addressed is whether a Cauchy evolution numerical integration program can be easily modified to compute this evolution. In the spirit of the von Neumann and Richtmyer artificial viscosity which thickens a shock by many orders of magnitude to facilitate numerical simulation, I propose artificial cosmology to thicken null infinity Scri+ to approximate it by a de Sitter cosmological horizon where, in conformally compactified presentation, it provides a shell of purely outgoing null cones where asymptotic waves can be read off as data on a spacelike pure outflow outer boundary. This should be simpler than finding Scri+ as an isolated null boundary or imposing outgoing wave conditions at a timelike boundary at finite radius.
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