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Boundary conditions for hyperbolic formulations of the Einstein equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-07-19 v2

Abstract

In regards to the initial-boundary value problem of the Einstein equations, we argue that the projection of the Einstein equations along the normal to the boundary yields necessary and appropriate boundary conditions for a wide class of equivalent formulations. We explicitly show that this is so for the Einstein-Christoffel formulation of the Einstein equations in the case of spherical symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0302032,
  title  = {Boundary conditions for hyperbolic formulations of the Einstein equations},
  author = {Simonetta Frittelli and Roberto Gomez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0302032},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

15 pages; text added and typesetting errors corrected; to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity