Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities
Abstract
This Living Review updates a previous version [25] which is itself an update of a review article [31]. Numerical exploration of the properties of singularities could, in principle, yield detailed understanding of their nature in physically realistic cases. Examples of numerical investigations into the formation of naked singularities, critical behavior in collapse, passage through the Cauchy horizon, chaos of the Mixmaster singularity, and singularities in spatially inhomogeneous cosmologies are discussed.
- Publication:
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Living Reviews in Relativity
- Pub Date:
- January 2002
- DOI:
- 10.12942/lrr-2002-1
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0201056
- Bibcode:
- 2002LRR.....5....1B
- Keywords:
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- numerical relativity;
- singularities;
- Black Hole;
- Naked Singularity;
- Cosmic Censorship;
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement;
- Cauchy Horizon;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 51 pages, 6 figures may be found in online version: Living Rev. Relativity 2002-1 at www.livingreviews.org