Fully global numerical evolutions of the linearised spin-2 equation
Abstract
We study the linearised spin-2 field on conformally compactified Minkowski spacetime. Initial data are prescribed on past null infinity ℐ-, and the system is evolved through the cylinder at spatial infinity to future null infinity ℐ+. To avoid the development of logarithmic singularities and thereby preserve smooth peeling behaviour, we derive explicit conditions on the freely specifiable ingoing gravitational radiation ψ0 at ℐ- that ensure regular initial data. For compactly supported data, we obtain necessary and sufficient integral conditions guaranteeing regularity and compact support of the full system. In the simplest cases, we construct examples of exact initial data, while for the general case, we present a numerical procedure that computes the remaining ψk to obtain a full initial data set. We perform numerical evolutions using two gauges corresponding to compactification of either a neighbourhood of spatial infinity or the entire Minkowski spacetime, and demonstrate stable propagation of the system from ℐ- to ℐ+. These results provide a step towards a framework for fully global simulations of gravitational radiation and clarify the role of initial data on ℐ- in determining asymptotic structure.
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BibTeX
@misc{barrer2026fully,
title = {{Fully global numerical evolutions of the linearised spin-2 equation}},
author = {Merlyn Barrer and Jörg Frauendiener and Jörg Hennig and Oliver Markwell and Chris Stevens and Jed Thompson-Fawcett},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.01541},
eprint = {2608.01541},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01541},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Fully global numerical evolutions of the linearised spin-2 equation
AU - Merlyn Barrer
AU - Jörg Frauendiener
AU - Jörg Hennig
AU - Oliver Markwell
AU - Chris Stevens
AU - Jed Thompson-Fawcett
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/21
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01541
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01541
AB - We study the linearised spin-2 field on conformally compactified Minkowski spacetime. Initial data are prescribed on past null infinity ℐ^-, and the system is evolved through the cylinder at spatial infinity to future null infinity ℐ^+. To avoid the development of logarithmic singularities and thereby preserve smooth peeling behaviour, we derive explicit conditions on the freely specifiable ingoing gravitational radiation ψ_0 at ℐ^- that ensure regular initial data. For compactly supported data, we obtain necessary and sufficient integral conditions guaranteeing regularity and compact support of the full system. In the simplest cases, we construct examples of exact initial data, while for the general case, we present a numerical procedure that computes the remaining ψ_k to obtain a full initial data set. We perform numerical evolutions using two gauges corresponding to compactification of either a neighbourhood of spatial infinity or the entire Minkowski spacetime, and demonstrate stable propagation of the system from ℐ^- to ℐ^+. These results provide a step towards a framework for fully global simulations of gravitational radiation and clarify the role of initial data on ℐ^- in determining asymptotic structure.
ER -