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3d Summation-by-Parts scheme for Linear Wave Equations on Hyperboloidal Slices

Anuraag Reddy·Shalabh Gautam·Prayush Kumar
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We derive a fully 3-dimensional Summation-By-Parts scheme for a class of linear wave equations on hyperboloidal slices that meet future null infinity on a Minkowski background. The scheme is derived in spherical polar coordinates, with a major strength being that it is provably stable and allows having grid points at the origin and on the $z$-axis, despite coordinate singularities, and at infinity, by introducing compactification followed by rescaling. Reducing it to the standard Cauchy problem, or on finite spacelike slices with an outer boundary, will follow a similar procedure. Interesting relations are obtained between the rescaling and compactification factors that simplify the equations, and the conditions on constraint addition terms are discovered to maintain symmetric hyperbolicity. Numerical implementation is achieved using finite-difference methods at second-order accuracy, which can be generalized to higher-order or spectral accuracies as well. Dissipation operators are given a more abstract treatment, which makes it possible to define them everywhere in the domain, including at the boundary points, in curvilinear coordinates, such that they satisfy the dissipative property (DP) in our energy norms. These generalizations reduce to the well-known Kreiss-Oliger dissipation operators whenever defined on a Cartesian grid in the bulk and satisfy the DP in the standard $L^2$-norms. We also propose new norm convergence tests that produce more accurate outputs. Promising results are obtained, giving hope for application to fully nonlinear systems, like the Einstein Field Equations, and extracting the resulting gravitational waves free of systematic errors or gauge ambiguities.

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Anuraag Reddy, Shalabh Gautam, Prayush Kumar. 2026-06-01. 3d Summation-by-Parts scheme for Linear Wave Equations on Hyperboloidal Slices. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02051

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