BH Punctures as Initial Data for General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We construct initial data for several black holes with arbitrary momenta and spins by a new method that is based on a compactification of Brill-Lindquist wormholes. When treated numerically, the method leads to a significant simplification over the conventional approach which is based on throats and an isometry condition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9711015,
title = {BH Punctures as Initial Data for General Relativity},
author = {S. R. Brandt and B. Bruegmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9711015},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 postscript figures, LaTeX, uses mprocl.sty (available at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/MG8/submission.html) To appear in the proceedings of the Marcel Grossmann 8 (Jerusalem, 1997)