Stable radiation-controlling boundary conditions for the generalized harmonic Einstein equations
arXiv:gr-qc/0606053 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/22/013
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations in a first-order generalized harmonic formulation. We impose boundary conditions that preserve the constraints and control the incoming gravitational radiation by prescribing data for the incoming fields of the Weyl tensor. High-frequency perturbations about any given spacetime (including a shift vector with subluminal normal component) are analyzed using the Fourier-Laplace technique. We show that the system is boundary-stable. In addition, we develop a criterion that can be used to detect weak instabilities with polynomial time dependence, and we show that our system does not suffer from such instabilities. A numerical robust stability test supports our claim that the initial-boundary value problem is most likely to be well-posed even if nonzero initial and source data are included.
27 pages, 4 figures; more numerical results and references added, several minor amendments; version accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav
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