English

Problems and Successes in the Numerical Approach to the Conformal Field Equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This talk reports on the status of an approach to the numerical study of isolated systems with the conformal field equations. We first describe the algorithms used in a code which has been developed at AEI in the last years, and discuss a milestone result obtained by Huebner. Then we present more recent results as examples to sketch the problems we face in the conformal approach to numerical relativity and outline a possible roadmap toward making this approach a practical tool.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0204043,
  title  = {Problems and Successes in the Numerical Approach to the Conformal Field Equations},
  author = {Sascha Husa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0204043},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

20 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the conference ``The Conformal Structure of Spacetimes: Geometry, Analysis, Numerics'', ed. by J. Frauendiener and H. Friedrich, to be published by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics series