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Exact conformal electrovacuum constraint transformation
Statement
Use the smooth conformal seed data defined in this development on an oriented smooth three-manifold, and let and be the Levi-Civita connections of and . Define , with the Euclidean convention in Cartesian coordinates. Use the spatial curvature sign and scalar-curvature contraction fixed for induced data in the preceding Gauss-Codazzi convention. Let and be the SI-convention vector fields associated with the inherited constrained electrovacuum initial-data convention. Then the two Maxwell divergence constraints are equivalent to
and the SI Hamiltonian constraint in that definition is equivalent to
Here is the scalar curvature of in the stated convention, and the barred norms use to raise and lower indices. The exact vector divergence identities are and . The separate momentum constraint remains
where the cross product on the right is lowered with . In particular, if and , the momentum equation holds. The transformed scalar equation alone does not impose the momentum constraint and gives no elliptic existence theorem.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: Smooth seed data as in the Statement, with , , and the SI-convention constraint equations defined on the same three-manifold.
Conformal electrovacuum seed data: , , , and , where is -trace-free.
Constrained electrovacuum initial data: and ; its momentum equation is .
SI and geometrized Einstein–Maxwell parameters: , with constant.
Gauss-Codazzi decomposition in Gaussian normal coordinates and the constraint equations in terms of the induced metric and second fundamental form: the induced spatial scalar curvature is contracted from the curvature operator with the same sign convention as the ambient operator; the Hamiltonian constraint uses for .
Proof
In any positively oriented coordinate chart, , so . The Levi-Civita formula and the determinant derivative give , hence for every smooth vector field . Substituting and then gives and . Since , , and both factors are positive, the two SI divergence constraints are equivalent to the two barred divergence equations.
The oriented volume forms satisfy . In coordinates, . Also and , by inserting and the two vector weights. Therefore and , using [F3].
Taking the -trace of gives , because is trace-free. In the squared norm, the cross term between and vanishes by the same trace condition; the pure trace term is , and the trace-free term is . Thus .
Put , so . In a chart, metric compatibility and torsion-freeness give , hence . Expanding the curvature definition and contracting gives . Here , , and because is closed. Expanding the products gives and ; tracing with therefore yields . Substitution of and cancels the gradient-square terms and gives .
Substituting steps 1.3 and 1.4 into the left side of the SI Hamiltonian constraint [F2], and step 1.2 into its right side, gives . Multiplication by the positive is reversible and yields exactly the transformed scalar equation in the Statement; step 1.1 gives the two equivalent Maxwell constraints.
By step 1.2, the right side of the SI momentum constraint in [F2] is , which proves the displayed retained momentum equation. If , its left side vanishes; if also , its right side vanishes. No step has inferred this vector equation from the scalar constraint.
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Sources
- A. I. Alcubierre, J. C. Degollado and M. Salgado, The Einstein-Maxwell system in 3+1 form and initial data for multiple charged black holes, arXiv:0907.1151v2 (2009)
- Eric Gourgoulhon, 3+1 Formalism and Bases of Numerical Relativity, Lecture Notes in Physics 846 (2012), author preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0703035v1