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The first attempts at solving a binary black hole spacetime date back to the 1960s, with the pioneering works of Hahn and Lindquist. In spite of all the computational advances and enormous efforts by several groups, the first stable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Miguel Zilhão

We have recently constructed a numerical code that evolves a spherically symmetric spacetime using a hyperbolic formulation of Einstein's equations. For the case of a Schwarzschild black hole, this code works well at early times, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark A. Scheel , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Gregory B. Cook , Stuart L. Shapiro , Saul A. Teukolsky

We present the first numerically stable nonlinear evolution for the leading-order gravitational effective field theory (Quadratic Gravity) in the spherically-symmetric sector. The formulation relies on (i) harmonic gauge to cast the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Aaron Held , Hyun Lim

We develop a new covariant formalism to treat spherically symmetric spacetimes in metric} f(R) theories of gravity. Using this formalism we derive the general equations for a static and spherically symmetric metric in a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Anne Marie Nzioki , Sante Carloni , Rituparno Goswami , Peter K. S. Dunsby

In this work numerical methods for solving Einstein's equations are developed and applied to the study of inhomogeneous cosmological models. A two-dimensional computer code is described which implements two advanced numerical methods:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon D. Hern

To explore the properties of space and initial singularities in the context of general relativity, where spacetime becomes poorly defined and no longer belongs to a regular manifold, we examine the evolution of the expansion of timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Abdel Nasser Tawfik , Azzah A. Alshehri , Antonio Pasqua

This work presents a novel methodology for deriving stationary and axially symmetric solutions to Einstein field equations using the 1+3 tetrad formalism. This approach reformulates the Einstein equations into first order scalar equations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 J. Ospino , J. L. Hernández-Pastora , A. V. Araujo-Salcedo , L. A. Núñez

Relativistic numerical cosmology is most often based either on the exact solutions of the Einstein equations, or perturbation theory, or weak-field limit, or the BSSN formalism. The Silent Universe provides an alternative approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Krzysztof Bolejko

We describe numerical techniques used in the construction of our 4th order evolution for the full Einstein equations, and assess the accuracy of representative solutions. The code is based on a null gauge with a quasi-spherical radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-28 Robert A. Bartnik , Andrew H. Norton

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

A new implementation for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity (involving dynamical spacetimes) is presented. In our implementation, Einstein's evolution equations are evolved by a BSSN formalism, MHD equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masaru Shibata , Yu-ichiou Sekiguchi

We developed a numerical code which evolves the semiclassical Einstein's equation (with the quantum stress-energy contribution added as a source term) for the spherically symmetric metric inside an evaporating semiclassical charged black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Gil Arad

We present a new two-dimensional numerical code called Nada designed to solve the full Einstein equations coupled to the general relativistic hydrodynamics equations. The code is mainly intended for studies of self-gravitating accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Pedro J. Montero , Jose A. Font , Masaru Shibata

Contents: 1) Introduction and a few excursions [A word on the role of explicit solutions in other parts of physics and astrophysics. Einstein's field equations. "Just so" notes on the simplest solutions: The Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Bicak

We study a tensorial exponential transformation of a three-dimensional metric of space-like hypersurfaces embedded in a four-dimensional space-time, $\gamma_{ij} = e^{\epsilon_{ikm}\theta_m} e^{\phi_k} e^{-\epsilon_{jkn}\theta_n}$, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Khokhlov , I. D. Novikov

In computational relativity, critical behaviour near the black hole threshold has been studied numerically for several models in the last decade. In this paper we present a spatial Galerkin method, suitable for finding numerical solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Benedikt Zeller , Ralf Hiptmair

This article begins with a brief introduction to numerical relativity aimed at readers who have a background in applied mathematics but not necessarily in general relativity. I then introduce and summarise my work on the problem of treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Oliver Rinne

By using the method of group analysis, we obtain a new exact evolving and spherically symmetric solution of the Einstein-Cartan equations of motion, corresponding to a space-time threaded with a three-form Kalb-Ramond field strength. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Filemon Farfan , Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Oscar Loaiza-Brito , Claudia Moreno , Alexander Yakhno

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

A new semi-supervised machine learning package is introduced which successfully solves the Euclidean vacuum Einstein equations with a cosmological constant, without any symmetry assumptions. The model architecture contains subnetworks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Edward Hirst , Tancredi Schettini Gherardini , Alexander G. Stapleton