Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities

doi:doi:10.12942/lrr-1998-7

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doi: 10.12942/lrr-1998-7

Living Rev. Relativity 1 (1998), 7

Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities

Beverly K. Berger

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¹ Physics Department, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, U.S.A. and Physics Division, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230 U.S.A.

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This review updates a previous review article. Numerical explorationof the properties of singularities could, in principle, yield detailed understanding of their nature in physically realistic cases. Examples of numerical investigations into the formation of naked singularities, critical behavior in collapse, passage through the Cauchy horizon, chaos of the Mixmaster singularity, and singularities in spatially inhomogeneous cosmologies are discussed.

Keywords: singularities, numerical relativity

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ORIGINAL	http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-1998-7
Title	Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities
Author	Beverly K. Berger
Date	accepted 3 May 1998, published 8 May 1998
UPDATE	http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2002-1
Title	Numerical Approaches to Spacetime Singularities
Author	Beverly K. Berger
Date	accepted 17 December 2001, published 14 January 2002
Changes	Approximately 60 new references have been included. All topics in the original review have been updated. The section on inhomogeneous cosmologies has been rewritten to the greatest extent.