Strong hyperboloidal compactification for the spherical dual-foliation-generalized harmonic gauge formulation of GR
Phys. Rev. D 112, 024078 – Published 31 July, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/5wvv-dhkb
Abstract
The use of compactified hyperboloidal coordinates for metric formulations of the Einstein field equations introduces formally singular terms in the equations of motion whose numerical treatment requires care. In this paper we study a particular choice of constraint addition, choice of gauge and reduction fields in order to minimize the number of these terms in a spherically symmetric reduction of the dual-foliation generalized harmonic gauge formulation of general relativity. We proceed to the numerical implementation of a more aggressive compactification, as compared to our previous work. With the present setup there is a direct analogy with conformal compactification used in other approaches to the use of hyperboloidal coordinates. We present numerical results of constraints violating and satisfying perturbations on top of a Schwarzschild black hole. For small perturbations we recover the expected physics from linear theory, corresponding to quasinormal mode ringing and tail decay for a scalar field, both extracted directly at future null infinity from our numerical data.
