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We review recent efforts to re-formulate the Einstein equations for fully relativistic numerical simulations. In order to complete a long-term and accurate simulations of binary compact objects, people seek a robust set of equations against…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-02 Hisa-aki Shinkai

The Einstein field equations of gravitation are characterized by cross-scale, high-order nonlinear terms, representing a challenge for numerical modeling. In an exact spectral decomposition, high-order nonlinearities correspond to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Claudio Meringolo , Sergio Servidio

Recent perturbative studies have shown the existence of long-lived, quasi-stationary configurations of scalar fields around black holes. In particular, such configurations have been found to survive for cosmological timescales, which is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , Pedro J. Montero , José A. Font

The nonlinear stability of Kerr-Newman black holes (KNBHs) is investigated by performing numerical simulations within the full Einstein-Maxwell theory. We take as initial data a KNBH with mass $M$, angular momentum to mass ratio $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso , Carlos Herdeiro , Luis Lehner , Ulrich Sperhake

Solving the 4-d Einstein equations as evolution in time requires solving equations of two types: the four elliptic initial data (constraint) equations, followed by the six second order evolution equations. Analytically the constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Matthew Anderson , Richard A. Matzner

We review recent efforts to re-formulate the Einstein equations for fully relativistic numerical simulations. The so-called numerical relativity (computational simulations in general relativity) is a promising research field matching with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Gen Yoneda

Rotating hairy black holes (RHBHs) are axisymmetric equilibrium solutions of the Einstein--Klein--Gordon equations, consisting of a spinning black hole surrounded by a toroidal distribution of complex scalar field. Despite their potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Juan A. Carretero , Philippe Grandclément , Carlos Palenzuela , Marcelo Salgado

To fully unlock the scientific potential of upcoming gravitational wave (GW) interferometers, numerical relativity (NR) simulation accuracy will need to be greatly enhanced. We present three infrastructure-agnostic improvements to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-19 Zachariah B. Etienne

We construct a numerical relativity code based on the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) formulation for the gravitational quadratic $f(R)$ Starobinsky model. By removing the assumption that the determinant of the conformal 3-metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-02 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Denis Pollney

Significant advances in numerical simulations of black-hole binaries have recently been achieved using the puncture method. We examine how and why this method works by evolving a single black hole. The coordinate singularity and hence the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Denis Pollney , Bernd Bruegmann , Niall O'Murchadha

We extend a recently developed numerical code to obtain stationary, axisymmetric solutions that describe rotating black hole spacetimes in a wide class of modified theories of gravity. The code utilizes a relaxed Newton-Raphson method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolás Yunes , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Brown has recently introduced a covariant formulation of the BSSN equations which is well suited for curvilinear coordinate systems. This is particularly desirable as many astrophysical phenomena are symmetric with respect to the rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Pedro J. Montero , Isabel Cordero-Carrion

This paper investigates the dynamic behavior of static, spherically symmetric black holes within the Einstein-Bumblebee gravity model with a cosmological constant, focusing on scalar field perturbations. Through separation of the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Hao Hu , Guoxiong Zhu

Approximate solutions to the Einstein field equations are a valuable tool to investigate gravitational phenomena. An important aspect of any approximation is to investigate and quantify its regime of validity. We present a study that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Tanja Bode , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre M. Shoemaker , Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann , Birjoo Vaishnav

We extend a new finite element code, Einstein PHG (iPHG), to solve the evolution part of Einstein equations in first-order GH formalism. This paper is the third one of a systematic investigation of applying adaptive finite element method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-18 Li-Wei Ji , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao

We present a code for solving the coupled Einstein-hydrodynamics equations to evolve relativistic, self-gravitating fluids. The Einstein field equations are solved in generalized harmonic coordinates on one grid using pseudospectral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We investigate the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos made up of a massless bosonic field. The coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations are solved numerically, showing that such a boson halo is stable and can be formed under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayashree Balakrishna , Franz E. Schunck

We analyze the tensor mode perturbations of static, spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations with a quadratic Gauss-Bonnet term in dimension $D > 4$. We show that the evolution equations for this type of perturbations can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser

We investigate the stability of $f(R)$ (Schwarzschild) black hole obtained from the $f(R)$ gravity. It is difficult to carry out the perturbation analysis around the black hole because the linearized Einstein equation is fourth order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-13 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon , Edwin J. Son

We present cosmological-scale numerical simulations of an evolving universe in full general relativity (GR) and introduce a new numerical tool, {\sc CosmoGRaPH}, which employs the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) formalism on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-27 James B. Mertens , John T. Giblin , Glenn D. Starkman