Hypergraph Discretization of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity via Wolfram Model Evolution
arXiv:2102.09363
Abstract
Although the traditional form of the Einstein field equations is intrinsically four-dimensional, the field of numerical general relativity focuses on the reformulation of these equations as a 3 + 1-dimensional Cauchy problem, in which Cauchy initial data is specified on a three-dimensional spatial hypersurface, and then evolved forwards in time. The Wolfram model offers an inherently discrete formulation of the Einstein field equations as an a priori Cauchy problem, in which Cauchy initial data is specified on a single spatial hypergraph, and then evolved by means of hypergraph substitution rules, with the resulting causal network corresponding to the conformal structure of spacetime. This article introduces a new numerical general relativity code based upon the conformal and covariant Z4 (CCZ4) formulation with constraint-violation damping, with the option to reduce to the standard BSSN formalism if desired, with Cauchy data defined over hypergraphs; the code incorporates an unstructured generalization of the adaptive mesh refinement technique proposed by Berger and Colella, in which the topology of the hypergraph is refined or coarsened based upon local conformal curvature terms. We validate this code numerically against a variety of standard spacetimes, including Schwarzschild black holes, Kerr black holes, maximally extended Schwarzschild black holes, and binary black hole mergers (both rotating and non-rotating), and explicitly illustrate the relationship between the discrete hypergraph topology and the continuous Riemannian geometry that is being approximated. Finally, we compare the results produced by this code to the results obtained by means of pure Wolfram model evolution (without the underlying PDE system), using a hypergraph substitution rule that provably satisfies the Einstein field equations in the continuum limit.
arXiv comment131 pages, 84 figures
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