Hyperboloidal foliations and scri-fixing
arXiv:0712.4333 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/14/145002
Abstract
We discuss a gauge choice which allows us to avoid the introduction of artificial timelike outer boundaries in numerical studies of test fields based on a 3+1 decomposition of asymptotically flat background spacetimes. The main idea is to include null infinity in the computational domain by conformally compactifying the metric on hyperboloidal foliations and fixing the spatial coordinate location of null infinity, i.e. scri-fixing. We construct such coordinates explicitly on Minkowski, Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes.
14 pages, 14 figures. Published version
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