Instability of free evolution in double null coordinates

Preprint

11 June 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

We suggest that ``free evolution'' integration schemes for the Einstein equations (that do not enforce constraints) may contain exponentially growing modes that render them useless in numerical integrations.

Keywords

NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS
ENFORCE CONSTRAINTS
EINSTEIN EQUATIONS
NULL COORDINATES
FREE EVOLUTION
GROWING MODES
INSTABILITY
DOUBLE NULL
EVOLUTION

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Version 1, 1996-06-11, ArXiv
Version 2, 1997-01-29, ArXiv
Published version: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14 (4), 991.

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