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Towards an understanding of the stability properties of the 3+1 evolution equations in general relativity

Towards an understanding of the stability properties of the 3+1 evolution equations in general relativity

We study the stability properties of the standard ADM formulation of the 3+1 evolution equations of general relativity through linear perturbations of flat spacetime. We focus attention on modes with zero speed of propagation and conjecture that they are responsible for instabilities encountered in numerical evolutions of the ADM formulation. …