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Christian Peterson

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arXiv2025

Strong hyperboloidal compactification for the spherical DF-GHG formulation of GR

The use of compactified hyperboloidal coordinates for metric formulations of the Einstein field Equations introduces formally singular terms in the equations of motion whose numerical treatment requires care. In this paper we study a particular choice of constraint addition, choice of gauge and reduction fields in order to minimize the number of these terms in a spherically symmetric reduction of the Dual-Foliation Generalized Harmonic Gauge formulation of General Relativity. We proceed to the numerical implementation of a more aggressive compactification, as compared to our previous work. With the present setup there is a direct analogy with conformal compactification used in other approaches to the use of hyperboloidal coordinates. We present numerical results of constraints violating and satisfying perturbations on top of a Schwarzschild black hole. For small perturbations we recover the expected physics from linear theory, corresponding to quasi normal mode ringing and tail decay for a scalar field, both extracted directly at future null infinity from our numerical data.

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arXiv2025

Numerical evolutions of the linearised conformal Einstein field equations in the inversion-Minkowski spacetime

Numerical evolutions of a system of equations close to null infinity in the geometric background of the inversion-Minkowski spacetime are performed. The evolved equations correspond to the linearisation of a second order metric formulation of the conformal Einstein field equations (CEFEs). These linear equations were first presented in [1] and the main purpose of this paper is to illustrate, through numerical evolutions, the scri-fixing technique via gauge source functions introduced [1] for the linearised CEFEs. A comparison of evolutions using scri-fixing gauge sources and trivial gauge source function in spherical and axial symmetry is presented.

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arXiv2024

Spherical Evolution of the Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formulation of General Relativity on Compactified Hyperboloidal Slices

We report on the successful numerical evolution of the compactified hyperboloidal initial value problem in general relativity using generalized harmonic gauge. We work in spherical symmetry, using a massless scalar field to drive dynamics. Our treatment is based on the dual-foliation approach, proceeding either by using a height function or by solving the eikonal equation to map between frames. Both are tested here with a naive implementation and with hyperboloidal layers. We present a broad suite of numerical evolutions, including pure gauge perturbations, constraint violating and satisfying data with and without scalar field matter. We present calculations of spacetimes with a regular center. For black hole spacetimes we use excision to remove part of the black hole interior. We demonstrate both pointwise and norm convergence at the expected rate of our discretization. We present evolutions in which the scalar field collapses to form a black hole. Evolving nonlinear scalar field perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime, we recover the expected quasinormal frequencies and tail decay rates from linear theory.

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arXiv2024

Massive and Massless Quantum Cosmos

The recent analysis of quantum cosmology by S. Gielen [1] is extended by discussing the case of dust (in the flat case). The dependence of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation on the operator ordering of the Hamiltonian in the case of a position dependent mass is explored, together with the Λ dependence. As a main result, it is shown that matter enforces a quantized wave function as a solution of the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the anti-de Sitter case.

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arXiv2023

3D Evolution of a Good-Bad-Ugly-F Model on Compactified Hyperboloidal Slices

The Good-Bad-Ugly-F model is a system of semi-linear wave equations that mimics the asymptotic form of the Einstein field equations in generalized harmonic gauge with specific constraint damping and suitable gauge source functions. These constraint additions and gauge source functions eliminate logarithmic divergences appearing at the leading order in the asymptotic expansion of the metric components. In this work, as a step towards using compactified hyperboloidal slices in numerical relativity, we evolve this model numerically in spherical symmetry, axisymmetry and full 3d on such hyperboloidal slices. Promising numerical results are found in all cases. Our results show that nonlinear systems of wave equations with the asymptotics of the Einstein field equations in the above form can be reliably captured within hyperboloidal numerical evolution without assuming symmetry.

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arXiv2023

Instantons, analytic continuation, and $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric field theory

Ordinary Hermitian $λϕ^4$ theory is known to exist in $d<4$ dimensions when $λ>0$. For negative values of the coupling, it has been suggested that a physical meaningful definition of the interacting theory can be given in terms of ${\cal PT}$-symmetric field theory. In this work, we critically re-examine the relation between analytically continued Hermitian field theory with quartic interaction, and ${\cal PT}$-symmetric field theory, including $O(N)$ models. We find that in general ${\cal PT}$-symmetric field theory does not correspond to the analytic continuation of the Hermitian theory, except at high temperature where the instanton contribution present in the analytically continued theory can be neglected.

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arXiv2022

Exact solutions to Euler's equations for rigid body motion with application to detumbling satellites

Exact solutions are found for Euler's equations of rigid body motion for general asymmetrical bodies under the influence of torque by using Jacobi elliptic functions. Differential equations are determined for the amplitudes and the parameters of the elliptic functions. The solution is then applied to the detumbling of a satellite with arbitrary initial rotation rates where numerical solutions are seen to be in agreement with the analytical solution. The body fixed frame solution is then transformed to the inertial frame by use of a quaternion rotation matrix to depict the motion in figures and in animations within a Mathematica notebook which is openly published on the Wolfram community.

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arXiv2021

Spontaneous Lorentz violation and asymptotic flatness

The Standard Model Extension (SME) is a generic parametrization for Lorentz violation and the phenomenological consequences of the minimal gravity sector of the SME are usually studied using a post-Newtonian expansion that requires spacetime to be asymptotically flat. However, there is a term in this sector for which these approximations are unable to make predictions; this is known as the $t$ puzzle. The present paper studies a model of spontaneous Lorentz violation in the minimal gravity sector of the SME in a static and spherically symmetric situation, when no additional matter fields are present. It is shown that, under the above mentioned assumptions, $t$ is the only term in the minimal gravity sector for which no asymptotically flat solutions exist. This stems from the fact that the $t$ term fixes the asymptotic behavior of all the pieces of the curvature tensor.

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arXiv2020

Explicit Lorentz violation in a static and spherically-symmetric spacetime

Lorentz violation is motivated by quantum gravity and it is generically described by nondynamical tensors. In this work a Lorentz violating extension of general relativity is studied where a nondynamical tensor couples to the Weyl tensor. A family of static and spherically symmetric solutions in vacuum is found, confirming that there are consistent solutions with explicit Lorentz violation in dynamical spacetimes. These solutions produce an unconventional dependence of the gravitational redshift, which, in turn, leads to the first bounds on such nondynamical tensor that do not rely on the physics of the early universe. Moreover, the bounds obtained in this work are competitive with respect to limits on similar nondynamical tensors.

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arXiv2019

Symmetries and conserved quantities with arbitrary torsion: A generalization of Killing's theorem

When spacetime torsion is present, geodesics and autoparallels generically do not coincide. In this work, the well-known method that uses Killing vectors to solve the geodesic equations is generalized for autoparallels. The main definition is that of T-Killing vectors: vector fields such that, when their index is lowered with the metric, have vanishing symmetric derivative when acted with a torsionfull and metric-compatible derivative. The main property of T-Killing vectors is that their contraction with the autoparallels' tangents are constant along these curves. As an example, in a static and spherically symmetric situation, the autoparallel equations are reduced to an effective one-dimensional problem. Other interesting properties and extensions of T-Killing vectors are discussed.

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