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Harmonic Initial-Boundary Evolution In General Relativity, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton, B´Ela Szil´Agyi, Jeffrey Winicour
Harmonic Initial-Boundary Evolution In General Relativity, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton, B´Ela Szil´Agyi, Jeffrey Winicour
Maria Babiuc-Hamilton
Computational techniques which establish the stability of an evolution-boundary algorithm for a model wave equation with shift are incorporated into a well-posed version of the initial-boundary value problem for gravitational theory in harmonic coordinates. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a 3-dimensional numerical code which we demonstrate to provide stable, convergent Cauchy evolution in gauge wave and shifted gauge wave testbeds. Code performance is compared for Dirichlet, Neumann, and Sommerfeld boundary conditions and for boundary conditions which explicitly incorporate constraint preservation. The results are used to assess strategies for obtaining physically realistic boundary data by means of Cauchy-characteristic matching.