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Hyperboloidal evolution for scalar scattering in Minkowski space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-05-26 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We develop a time-domain numerical framework for global scalar wave scattering in Minkowski spacetime. The main contribution is an exact conformal matching of three compactified regions: a past hyperboloidal domain attached to I\mathscr I^-, a Penrose domain covering a neighborhood of spatial infinity i0i^0, and a future hyperboloidal domain attached to I+\mathscr I^+. The matching surfaces are identical conformal hypersurfaces in the adjacent charts. This yields a global evolution scheme connecting I\mathscr I^-, the neighborhood of i0i^0, and I+\mathscr I^+ without artificial timelike outer boundaries and without interpolation between scri-fixing gauges. We implement the construction for spherically symmetric scalar waves, including free propagation, localized linear scattering potentials such as the P\"oschl--Teller potential, and semilinear wave equations with cubic, quintic, and septic nonlinearities. The numerical experiments demonstrate stable propagation across the matching interfaces, direct extraction of radiation at I+\mathscr I^+, and fourth-order convergence for the free and linear-potential tests. The quintic and septic nonlinear tests exhibit approximately fourth-order convergence and recover the expected late-time tail rates. The cubic case, by contrast, shows only first-order convergence, revealing a limitation of our treatment near compactified boundaries when the conformally rescaled nonlinear source remains non-vanishing. These results validate the conformal matching strategy for long-time simulations, while identifying the boundary regularity issues that must be addressed using a more robust treatment of spatial infinity.

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@article{arxiv.2605.26028,
  title  = {Hyperboloidal evolution for scalar scattering in Minkowski space},
  author = {Ekrem S Demirboğa and Anıl Zenginoğlu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26028},
  year   = {2026}
}