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Ill-posedness of a double null free evolution scheme for black hole spacetimes

Carsten Gundlach, Jorge Pullin

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9606022

Abstract

We suggest that ``free evolution'' integration schemes for the Einstein equations (that do not enforce constraints) may contain exponentially growing modes that render them useless in numerical integrations of black hole spacetimes, independently of how the equations are differenced. As an example we consider the evolution of Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström spacetimes in double null coordinates.

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