An alternative approach to solving the Hamiltonian constraint

Details An alternative approach to solving the Hamiltonian constraint An alternative approach to solving the Hamiltonian constraint

2012-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/1202.4639v2

Phys.Rev.D85:084013,2012

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 4 figures, matches version published in PRD

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Solving Einstein's constraint equations for the construction of black hole initial data requires handling the black hole singularity. Typically, this is done either with the excision method, in which the black hole interior is excised from the numerical grid, or with the puncture method, in which the singular part of the conformal factor is expressed in terms of an analytical background solution, and the Hamiltonian constraint is then solved for a correction to the background solution that, usually, is assumed to be regular everywhere. We discuss an alternative approach in which the Hamiltonian constraint is solved for an inverse power of the conformal factor. This new function remains finite everywhere, so that this approach requires neither excision nor a split into background and correction. In particular, this method can be used without modification even when the correction to the conformal factor is singular itself. We demonstrate this feature for rotating black holes in the trumpet topology.

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