Null cone evolution of axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes

Details Null cone evolution of axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes Null cone evolution of axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes

2000-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0006081v1

J.Math.Phys. 35 (1994) 4184

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

25 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.530848

We present the details of an algorithm for the global evolution of asymptotically flat, axisymmetric spacetimes, based upon a characteristic initial value formulation using null cones as evolution hypersurfaces. We identify a new static solution of the vacuum field equations which provides an important test bed for characteristic evolution codes. We also show how linearized solutions of the Bondi equations can be generated by solutions of the scalar wave equation, thus providing a complete set of test beds in the weak field regime. These tools are used to establish that the algorithm is second order accurate and stable, subject to a Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition. In addition, the numerical versions of the Bondi mass and news function, calculated at scri on a compactified grid, are shown to satisfy the Bondi mass loss equation to second order accuracy. This verifies that numerical evolution preserves the Bianchi identities. Results of numerical evolution confirm the theorem of Christodoulou and Klainerman that in vacuum, weak initial data evolve to a flat spacetime. For the class of asymptotically flat, axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes, for which no nonsingular analytic solutions are known, the algorithm provides highly accurate solutions throughout the regime in which neither caustics nor horizons form.

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