NUMERICAL RELATIVITY

  • Preliminaries for numerical relativity
  • Formulation for initial-value problems of general relativity
  • Numerical methods for a solution of Einstein’s evolution equation
  • Matter equations in general relativity
  • Formulations for initial data, equilibrium, and quasi-equilibrium
  • Extracting gravitational waves
  • Finding black holes
  • Coalescence of binary compact objects
  • Gravitational collapse to a black hole
  • Non-radial instability and magnetohydrodynamics instability
  • Higher-dimensional simulations
  • Appendix A Killing vector and Frobenius’ theorem
  • Appendix B Numerical relativity in spherical symmetry
  • Appendix C Decomposition by spherical harmonics
  • Appendix D Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity
  • Appendix E Solutions of Riemann problems in special relativistic hydrodynamics
  • Appendix F Landau – Lifshitz pseudo tensor
  • Appendix G Laws of black hole and apparent horizon
  • Appendix H Post-Newtonian results for coalescing compact binaries