Geometrical optics analysis of the short-time stability properties of the Einstein evolution equations

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2003-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307001v1

Phys.Rev.D68:084024,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.084024

Many alternative formulations of Einstein's evolution have lately been examined, in an effort to discover one which yields slow growth of constraint-violating errors. In this paper, rather than directly search for well-behaved formulations, we instead develop analytic tools to discover which formulations are particularly ill-behaved. Specifically, we examine the growth of approximate (geometric-optics) solutions, studied only in the future domain of dependence of the initial data slice (e.g. we study transients). By evaluating the amplification of transients a given formulation will produce, we may therefore eliminate from consideration the most pathological formulations (e.g. those with numerically-unacceptable amplification). This technique has the potential to provide surprisingly tight constraints on the set of formulations one can safely apply. To illustrate the application of these techniques to practical examples, we apply our technique to the 2-parameter family of evolution equations proposed by Kidder, Scheel, and Teukolsky, focusing in particular on flat space (in Rindler coordinates) and Schwarzchild (in Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates).

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