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Weyl Curvature Evolution System for GR

Kirill Krasnov·Adam Shaw
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Starting from the chiral first-order pure connection formulation of General Relativity, we put the field equations of GR in a strikingly simple evolution system form. The two dynamical fields are a complex symmetric tracefree 3x3 matrix Psi, which encodes the self-dual part of the Weyl curvature tensor, as well as a spatial SO(3,C) connection A. The right-hand sides of the evolution equations also contain the triad for the spatial metric, and this is constructed non-linearly from the field Psi and the curvature of the spatial connection A. The evolution equations for this pair are first order in both time and spatial derivatives, and so simple that they could have been guessed without a computation. They are also the most natural generalisations of the equations one obtains in the case of the chiral description of Maxwell's theory. We also determine the modifications of the evolution system needed to enforce the "constraint sweeping", so that any possible numerical violation of the constraints present becomes propagating and gets removed from the computational grid.

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Kirill Krasnov, Adam Shaw. 2022-12-23. Weyl Curvature Evolution System for GR. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382%2Facc0cc

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