Higher-dimensional puncture initial data
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-10-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We calculate puncture initial data, corresponding to single and binary black holes with linear momenta, which solve the constraint equations of D dimensional vacuum gravity. The data are generated by a modification of the pseudo-spectral code presented in arXiv:gr-qc/0404056 and made available as the TwoPunctures thorn inside the Cactus computational toolkit. As examples, we exhibit convergence plots, the violation of the Hamiltonian constraint as well as the initial data for D=4,5,6,7. These initial data are the starting point to perform high energy collisions of black holes in D dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.2149,
title = {Higher-dimensional puncture initial data},
author = {Miguel Zilhão and Marcus Ansorg and Vitor Cardoso and Leonardo Gualtieri and Carlos Herdeiro and Ulrich Sperhake and Helvi Witek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2149},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures; corrected typos, added one Table and other minor changes. matches published version in PRD