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We study the full time-domain evolution of gravitational perturbations in black hole spacetimes arising in Einstein-Weyl gravity, a renormalizable extension of general relativity containing quadratic curvature corrections. We analyze both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Roman A. Konoplya , Andrea Spina , Alexander Zhidenko

We evolve a scalar field in a fixed Kerr-Schild background geometry to test simple $(3+1)$-dimensional algorithms for singularity excision. We compare both centered and upwind schemes for handling the shift (advection) terms, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Yo , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro

We present a singularity excision algorithm appropriate for numerical simulations of black holes moving throughout the computational domain. The method is an extension of the excision procedure previously used to obtain stable simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Shoemaker , K. Smith , U. Sperhake , P. Laguna , E. Schnetter , D. Fiske

We are interested in the global dynamics of a massive scalar field evolving under its own gravitational field and, in this paper, we study spherically symmetric solutions to Einstein's field equations coupled with a Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch , Filipe C. Mena , The-Cang Nguyen

We consider a series of distorted black hole initial data sets, and develop techniques to evolve them using the linearized equations of motion for the gravitational wave perturbations on a Schwarzschild background. We apply this to 2D and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabrielle Allen , Karen Camarda , Edward Seidel

We present numerical solutions of several spacetimes of physical interest, including binary black hole mergers, in shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) gravity, and describe our methods for solving the full equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-25 William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, $D$. In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Craig R. Clark , Guilherme L. Pimentel

The moving puncture method is analyzed for a single, non-spinning black hole. It is shown that the puncture region is not resolved by current numerical codes. As a result, the geometry near the puncture appears to evolve to an infinitely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. David Brown

According to general relativity, black holes are incomplete, which prevents developing a complete physical description of their dynamical formation and evolution once quantum effects are taken into account. Theories beyond general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Raúl Carballo-Rubio

We suggest that ``free evolution'' integration schemes for the Einstein equations (that do not enforce constraints) may contain exponentially growing modes that render them useless in numerical integrations of black hole spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Carsten Gundlach , Jorge Pullin

We calculate the first dynamical evolutions of merging black hole-neutron star binaries that construct the combined black hole-neutron star spacetime in a general relativistic framework. We treat the metric in the conformal flatness…

We develop a novel technique through spectral decompositions to study the gravitational perturbations of a black hole, without needing to decouple the linearized field equations into master equations and separate their radial and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes

We study the backwards-in-time stability of the Schwarzschild singularity from a dynamical PDE point of view. More precisely, considering a spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma_0$ in the interior of the black hole region, tangent to the singular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Grigorios Fournodavlos

We investigate the quantum evolution of large black holes that nucleate spontaneously in de Sitter space. By numerical computation in the s-wave and one-loop approximations, we verify claims that such black holes can initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jens C. Niemeyer , Raphael Bousso

This paper investigates the interplay between the geometric and topological properties of spherically symmetric black hole metrics within Einstein gravity, emphasizing implications for Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC). By analyzing metric…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Wen-Xiang Chen

Time evolution of a black hole lattice universe is simulated. The vacuum Einstein equations in a cubic box with a black hole at the origin are numerically solved with periodic boundary conditions on all pairs of opposite faces. Defining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-30 Chul-Moon Yoo , Hirotada Okawa , Ken-ichi Nakao

Current spectral simulations of Einstein's equations require writing the equations in first-order form, potentially introducing instabilities and inefficiencies. We present a new penalty method for pseudo-spectral evolutions of second order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Nicholas W. Taylor , Lawrence E. Kidder , Saul A. Teukolsky

We study the classical dynamics of black holes during a nonsingular cosmological bounce. Taking a simple model of a nonsingular bouncing cosmology driven by the combination of a ghost and ordinary scalar field, we use nonlinear evolutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-03 Maxence Corman , William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

We perform a numerical study of black hole formation from the spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field. The calculations are done in Painlev\'e-Gullstrand (PG) coordinates that extend across apparent horizons and allow the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 J. Ziprick , G. Kunstatter

We introduce a two-parameter static, nonspherically-symmetric black hole solution in the Einstein theory of gravity coupled with a massless scalar field. The scalar field depends only on the polar coordinate $\theta$ in the spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-21 S. Habib Mazharimousavi