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Phys. Rev. D 68, 041501(R) (2003) [5 pages]

Well-posed initial-boundary evolution in general relativity

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Béla Szilágyi1 and Jeffrey Winicour1,2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
2Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, 14476 Golm, Germany

Received 30 May 2002; revised 19 June 2003; published 21 August 2003

Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein’s equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in a linearized sense. The method is implemented as a nonlinear evolution code, which satisfies convergence tests in the nonlinear regime and is stable in the weak field regime. A linearized version has been stably matched to a characteristic code to compute the gravitational wave form radiated to infinity.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.041501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.041501
PACS:
04.25.Dm, 04.20.Jb, 04.30.Db, 04.70.Bw