Worldtube conservation laws for the null-timelike evolution problem

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作者
Winicour, Jeffrey [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[2] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Golm, Germany
关键词
Conservation laws; Gravitational waves; Boundary conditions; BOUNDARY VALUE-PROBLEM; GENERAL RELATIVITY; EINSTEIN EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL RELATIVITY; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; CAUCHY-PROBLEM; MOTION;
D O I
10.1007/s10714-011-1241-3
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
I treat the worldtube constraints which arise in the null-timelike initial-boundary value problem for the Bondi-Sachs formulation of Einstein's equations. Boundary data on a worldtube and initial data on an outgoing null hypersurface determine the exterior spacetime by integration along the outgoing null geodsics. The worldtube constraints are a set of conservation laws which impose conditions on the integration constants. I show how these constraints lead to a well-posed initial value problem governing the extrinsic curvature of the worldtube, whose components are related to the integration constants. Possible applications to gravitational waveform extraction and to the well-posedness of the null-timelike initial-boundary value problem are discussed.
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页码:3269 / 3288
页数:20
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