Towards the nonlinear regime in extensions to GR: assessing possible options [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07897


Testing General Relativity and exploring possible departures has received further input with the possibility to do so through gravitational waves emitted in strongly gravitating/highly dynamical scenarios and also through the availability of exquisitely sensitive cosmological observations. However, most extensions suffer from severe pathologies at the mathematical level which have stymied a thorough exploration of putative theories. With the aid of a model problem which captures typical pathologies, we explore suggested methods to control them. We find that the approach that modifies the equations to control higher-order gradients is both robust and efficient.

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G. Allwright and L. Lehner
Tue, 28 Aug 18
42/53

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures