Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities

Abstract

This Living Review updates a previous version which its itself an update of a review article. Numerical exploration of the properties of singularities could, in principle, yield detailed understanding of their nature in physically realistic cases. Examples of numerical investigations into the formation of naked singularities, critical behavior in collapse, passage through the Cauchy horizon, chaos of the Mixmaster singularity, and singularities in spatially inhomogeneous cosmologies are discussed.

51 pages, 6 figures may be found in online version: Living Rev. Relativity 2002-1 at www.livingreviews.org

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